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REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS 



INCIDENTAL TO THE ERliCTUJN AND 
DEDICATUlN OF THE 



CONFEDERAT# MONUMENT 



RECEPTION AND ENTERTAINMENT OF RENOWNED SOUTHERN GENERALS 

AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED PERSONAGES, AT CHICAGO. ILLINOIS; 

LUNCHEON AND BANOUET GIVEN THEM AT CINCINNATI, 

OHIO, AND THEIR MILITARY GREETING AT 

FORT THOMAS, KENTUCKY, 

MAY-29— JUNE 1, 

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JNO. C. UNDERWOOD, C.E., A.M. 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 

AN'H lilOGKAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



Landscape scene in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, sliowinj^ the 

Confederate monument as it stands 1 1 hi m inn I, -d Fioiilii 

Military Scene — Inspection of the Black Hussars, the cavalry escort at the dedication 

of the Confederate monument in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, May 30. 1805 . 

Ornate patriotic corner piece (reduced and reproduced on type pages) .... 

Maj.-Gen. John C, Underwood of Kentucky 

Lieut -Gen. John B, Gordon of Georgia 

Group: Active Staff of Prov. Dept. of the North. U C V. 



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Brig. -Gen. Fayette Hewitt 

Col. Albert Akers . . 

Col. Jos. Desha Pickett 

Col. R. H. Stewart 

Col. Sam'l J. Sullivan 

Col L. Tierman Brien 

Lieut-Col. Lute C. Norman .... 

Maj. Frank V. Kobinson 

Mrs. R. L. Henry, of Chicago 

Group; Lady Assistants. 

Miss Virginia L. Mitchell ..... 

Miss Marie Louise Longstreet .... 

Miss Marie Armontine Sanders ' 

Miss Amanda C. Childress . 

Miss Margaret Cox 

Miss Nannie Heth 

Mrs. Marcus J. Wright 

Miss Fannie M. Scott 

U. S. Eagle and Shield, ijVo />,//>,7h.; .... .... 

Ferdinand W. Peck. Esq., of Chicago 

Lieut. -Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Mississippi 

Hon. Geo- B Swift, Mayor of Chicago 

Col. Henry L. Turner of Chicago 

Lieut. -Gen John M. Schofield, United States Army 

Lieut-Gen. James Longstreet of Georgia 

Maj.-Gen. M. C. Butler of South Carolina 

Brig-Gen. John C. Black of Illinois 

Maj.-Gen. Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia 

Lieut-Gen. Wade Hampton of South Carolina (Washington. D (',) 

Rev. H. W. Thomas of Chicago 

Adjt-Gen. Alfred Orendorff of Illinois . 

Maj. Holmes Conrad of Virginia (Washington. 1) C.I 

Maj.-Gen, H. Kyd Douglas of Maryland . . 



Kentucky. 
District Columbia. 
Kentucky. 
Illinois. 
Illinois. 
Maryland. 
Kentucky 
District Columbia. 



West Virginia- 
Georgia. 
Georgia. 
Louisiana. 
District Columbia. 
District Columbia. 
District Columbia 
Arkansas. 



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Maj.-Gen. Henry Hetli of Virginia (Washington, D. C.) 

Maj.-Gen. S. G. French of Florida 

Judge W. L. Calhoun of Georgia 

Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago 

Group: Staff of Div. of the Northwest. U. C. V. 

Lieut. -Col. Geo. Forrester Chicago. 

Lieut. -Col. R. Lee France .... Chicago. 

Lieut. -Col. Jere S. White ....... Chicago. 

Lieut. -Col. John W. White Chicago. 

Maj. Benjamin F. Jenkins . . Chicago. 

Maj. Chas. R. Tucker Chicago. 

Capt. Wm. B. Phipps Chicago. 

The Confederate monument at Chicago ... 

The bronze statue on monument at Chicago 

Two bronze panels on monument pedestal at Chicago 

Bronze and granite panels on monument pedestal at Chicago .... 

Goddess of Liberty vignette, invitation, etc 

Group: Comdr. and Comp. Staff, Confed. Memo. Parade 

Maj.-Gen. John C. Underwood Kentucky. 

Gen. Jos. P. EUacott Chicago. 

Gen. Chas. S. Bentley Chicago. 

Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones Chicago. 

Mr. Alexander H. Revell Chicago. 

Capt. Malcom McNeill Chicago. 

Mr, Chas. U. Gordon Chicago. 

Capt M. L, C. Funkhouser of Chicago 

Liberty Bell and ringing party 

Maj. Alfred Russell of Chicago 

Detachment of Black Hussars of Chicago ... 

Rev. H. W. Bolton of Chicago 

Rev. Jos. Desha Pickett of Kentucky (River Forrest, 111 I ... 
Lieut. -Gen. Wade Hampton delivering dedicatory address 

Maj. Henry T. Stanton of Kentucky 

Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows of Chicago 

Group: Monumenting the Cannon 

Miss Lucy Lee Hill Kentucky. 

Mrs. Alice Pickett .Akers District Columbia. 

Miss Laura L. Mitchell West Virginia. 

Miss Isabelle Armstrong District Columbia. 

Mrs. Katie Cabell Currie Texas. 

Scenes in cemetery — spiking and consecrating one of the guns .... 
Group: Field and Staff First Regiment Infantry, I. N. G. 

Lieut. -Col. Geo. V. Lauman Chicago. 

Maj. Jos. B. Sanborn Chicago. 

Maj. Edgar B. Tolman Chicago. 

Maj. Jas. M. Eddy, Jr Chicago. 

Maj. Chas. Adams Chicago. 

Capt. Wm. L. DeRemer Chicago. 

Capt. John W, Streeter Chicago. 

Capt. Hiram W. Thomas . Chicago. 

Capt. Eugene R. Cox Chicago. 

Capt. .\dolphus L. Bell Chicago. 



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Gkoui": Placing Floral Decorations. 

Miss Eliza Seldon Washiiititon West Virginia, 

Miss Catherine Stewart Chicago. 

Miss Marion Sullivan Chicago. 

Mrs. K. L. Walker Georgia. 

Miss Blanche McCollum Georgia. 

Miss Laura McCollum Georgia. 

Platoon of Company D First regiment inlantry. I. N. G 

Maj. H. G. Purinton of Chicago 

Squad of Company M First regiment infantry, I.N. G., at a rally 
Group; Company Commanders First Regiment Infantrv 1, N (',. 

Capt. Jos. H. Barnett Chicago. 

Capt. Edw. H Switzer Chicago. 

Capt. Wm. F. Knoch Chicago. 

Capt. Benj. F. Patrick, Jr Chicago. 

Capt. Anson L. Bolte .... Chicago. 

Capt. Wm. J. Sanderson . . Chicago. 

Capt- Sherman W. Smith Chicago. 

Capt. Chas. B, Sandham Chicago. 

Capt. Timothy M. Kennedy Chicago. 

Capt. Thos W. Coie Chicago. 

Capt. .Alexander M. Daniels Chicago. 

Lieut. Leon Rosenthal Chicago. 

Capt. Thomas S. Quincey of Chicago 

Messrs. A. G. Corre and D. C. Shears, props. Grand Hotel. Cincinnati 

Mr. Maurice J. Freiberg of Cincinnati 

Mr. E. O. McCormick of Cincinnati 

Brig. -Gen. Marcus J. Wright of Tennessee (Washington. DC) 

Ornamental invitation to Cincinnati banquet 

Ornamented program of addresses, toasts and responses at Cincinnati l).in(]uel 

Ornamented menu of Cincinnati banquet 

Mr. James M. Glenn of Cincinnati 

Col Albert Akers of Tennessee (Washington, D. C.) 

Maj. -Gen. J. D. Cox of Ohio 

Maj. H. P. Lloyd of Cincinnati . . • 

Brig. -Gen. Eppa Hunton of Virginia 

Brig -Gen. Michael Ryan of Cincinnati 

Maj. Robt. W. Hunter of Virginia (Washington, DC] 

Col. M, A. Cochran, U S. Army 

Capt. H. Beverly Littlepage of Virginia (Washington, D. C.) 
Maj. -Gen. L. L. Lomax of Virginia (Washington, D. C ) 

Capt. John W. Drew of District of Columbia 

Col, S. A. Cunningham of Tennessee 

Maj. -Gen. E. C. Walthall of Mississippi 

Brig-Gen. Wm, H. Jackson of Tennessee • 

Mrs. Sarah Bell Waller (deceased) of Chicago 

Ex-Confederate Association of Chicago, decorating Federal soldiers' graves 

Maj. -Gen. Lewis B, Parsons of Illinois 

Col, Chas. R. E, Koch of Chicago 

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Mr. A. O. Slaughter of Chicago 224 

Mr. Potter Palmer of Chicago 226 

Mr. H. N. Higinbotham of Chicago 228 

Mr. Lyman J Gage of Chicago 230 

Hon. C. B. Farwell of Chicago 232 

Hon. Washington Hesing of Chicago . . ■ 234 

Mr. M. E. Ingalls of Cincinnati 236 

Mr. Chas. K. Lord of Baltimore 238 

Mr. J. T. Harahan of Chicago 240 

Mr. Geo. M. Pullman of Chicago 242 

Mrs. Caroline Moerlein of Cincinnati 246 

Maj. J. A. Eberhardt of Cincinnati 246 

President and ex-presidents of The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago . . . 250 
Company M, First regiment, infantry, I. N. G., Capt. Edw. H. Switzer, command- 
ing, firing a volley in Augusta, Ga 2S4 

INDEX. 

Accounts of receipts and disbursements 258-269 

Armour, Philip D., reference to 225 

Beaslev, W. F., reference to 203 

Belknap. J. S., reference to 207 

Black Hussars, roster of officers and troopers of, at inspection, March 29, 1896 . . xi 

Black. John C, speech at Chicago banquet 49. 51. 53 

Bolton. H. W.: 

Address at Oakwoods cemetery. Chicago 109-113 

Presiding at Oakwoods cemetery. Chicago 109-143 

Butler. Matthew C. ; 

Speech at Chicago banquet 47^49 

Remarks in Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 159 

Calhoun. W. L.. speech at Chicago banquet 81 

Campbell, T, W.: 

Reference to 207 

Letter of 2S1. 2S2 

Chicago, carriage drive through and departure from . . 151 

Chicago southern movement, endorsement of 274-2S0 

Chicago Veteran Association, letter of 273 

Cochran. M. A : 

Speech at Fort Thomas reception . . 163 

Speech at Cincinnati banquet kji. 192 

Committees; 

Chicago citizens', general roster of iS 

organization of .... ... .... 19 

Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, organization of. for entertainment . . 164 

Placed in charge of monument 270 

Confederate Memorial parade, reference to 99, loi. 103. 105 

Conrad, Holmes: 

Speech at Chicago banquet 65, 67 

Remarks in Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 161 

Speech at Cincinnati banquet 178, 179 

Contributors to monument fund, etc 235, 258-2^3, 2O5, 266, 26S 

Corre. .A. G.. reference to Cincinnati entertainment 153 



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Couper, J M . reference to 206 

Cox. J. D.; 

Speech at Cincinnati banquet 175, 177, 17S 

Presiding as toastmaster at Cincinnati bani]net 175 ujj 

Cunningham, S A., reference to 205 

Dedication of book, a sentiment i 

Dotiglas, H. Kyd: 

Speech at Chicago banquet 67, 61J-71 

Remarks in Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce ... 162 

Speech at Cincinnati banquet iq2. 193 

Drew. John W.. reference to 203 

Eberhardt. J. A., reference to 247. 24.S 

Erwin. J. B , reference to , . . . • 201 

Ex-Confederate Association, Camp No. 8, U- C. V 251. 252 

Fallows. Samuel, ministerial at Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago 131, 133 

Farwell, Chas. B : 

Reference to 233 

Letter of 233 

Freiberg. Maurice J., chairman Cincinnati Committee of Entertainment . . . 155 

French. Samuel G . speech at Chicago banquet 79. Si 

Funkhouser. M. L. C. : 

Reference to .... 99. loi 

Letter of. tendering courtesy 272 

Gage, Lyman J,, reference to 231 

General thanks 270 

Glenn, James M. : 

Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 158 

Reference to at Fort Thomas, Ky 163 

Speech at Cincinnati banquet i6g. 171 

Presiding at Cincinnati banquet 169-175 

Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, reference to •■ '53 

Green. Wharton J , reference to 203 

Hampton, Wade: 

Resolution at Chicago banquet 39 

Speech at Chicago banquet 57, 59 

Dedicatory oration at Oakwoods cemeter\'. Chicago 117-123 

Harahan, J. T., reference to 241. 243 

Henry. Mrs. R. L.. reference to 27 

Hesing. Washington, reference to 235 

Heth. Henry: 

Speech at Chicago banquet 75' 77. 79 

Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 162 

Higinbotham. H. N.: 

Reference to 229 

Letter of 229 

Hunton, Eppa: 

Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 159 

Speech at Cincinnati banquet 1S3-1S5 

Hunter. Robt. W.. speech at Cincinnati bantjnet 1S9. 191 

Imperial-Arion Octet, music by 23. 115. 123, 131. 133 

Ingalls, M. E.. reference to 237, 239 

Invitation to dedicatory ceremonies 94 

Jackson. Wm. H.. reference to ' . . . . 209. 211 



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Jones. Jenkin Lloyd; 

Benediction at Chicago banqnet .... . Si. 83 

Letter of . 3 

Benediction at Oakwoods cemetery. Chicago T43 

Koch, Chas. R. E.. reference to 21C) 221 

Lawler. Thos. G.. letter of 223 

Lee, Kitzhugh: 

Speech at Chicago banquet 53-55 

Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 159 

Lee, Stephen D., speeches at Chicago banquet 35-37. f'o. fit. 63 

Littlepage, H. B., letter and history of Merimac-Monitor naval battle . . . 195-199 

Lloyd, H. P., speech at Cincinnati banquet iSi 

Lomax. L L.. reference to 201 

Longstreet. James: 

Speech at Chicago banquet 45 

Letter of 283 

Lord. Chas. K.. reference to . 239. 241 

Lyman. W. R., reference to 206 

Macloon, Chas. R . reference tn 207 

McCoUum. J. L . reference to 206 

McCormick. E. O., reference to 155, i6g 

Moerlein, Caroline, reference to 248 

Montgomery, J. E , reference to 207 

Monument; 

Description of 87 

Statue on S9 

Panels of 91. 93 

Ceremonies, dedicatory, incidental program of 95 

Consecrating the guns and dedication of battery 135. 137, 139 

Decorating the 139, 141 

Morgan, John T , letter of 221 

Morris, Mary B. (deceased), reference to 215 

Official communications; 

Confederate cemetery at Rock Island. Ill 271 

Courtesies extended 271. 272 

Orendorff, Alfred, speech at Chicago banquet 63, 64 

Palmer, Potter, reference to 227 

Parsons, Lewis B.: 

Letter of 217 

Reference to 217, 219 

Peck, Ferdinand W.; 

Speech at Chicago banquet 33, 35 

Presiding at Chicago banquet 33^39 

Pickett, Jos. Desha, prayer at Oakwoods cemetery Chicago 113. 115 

Poems; 

"The United States of America." i 

"Victorious Defeats" Sg 

Extract from "Gray's Elegy" 93 

Porter. Washington, letter of 280 

Powers and authority, vested in the author 253-257 

Preface and historic outline 3-g 



Press: 

Extracts from the ("hjcaiio 143. 145 

Extracts from the ("inciniiati 155, 157 i5'i. i*^! i'>3 

Pullman. Geo M . refereiicf to ^43 245. 247 

Purinton, H. G , commatuling Columbia Piist No. 7o(). (1 A. I\ 145 

Quince), Thos, S : 

Reference to 103, 151 

Letter of, tendering courtesy 272 

Railroads; 

Cleveland. Cincinnati. Chica.gn iV St Louis 237 

Baltimore & Ohio 239 

Illinois Central 241 

Various other transportation companies 247 

Receptions and entertainments; 

At the railroad depot, Chicago, press report of 20 

At the Palmer House, Chicago, in\itation to and press report of 22, z^. 25, 27, 28 

Banquet at Kinsley's, Chicago 29 

Menu of 30 

Program of addresses, toasts and responses at 31 

At Armory of First regiment infantry, I. N. G., Chicago .... 145. 147. 149 

In Cincinnati. Ohio, and Ft. Thomas. Ky,. press report of i55-i''3 

Luncheon at the Queen City Club. Cincinnati, reference to 1O2 

Banquet at Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, invitation to 165 

Program of addresses, toasts and responses at if>0 

Menu of ifi7 

Reference to and press report of 169, 193 

Reference to letters from prominent officers 43 

Report, mortuary and monument 11-15 

Roster of guests 21 

Russell, .-Vlfred; 

Reference to loi 

Letter of, tendering courtesy 272 

Ryan, Michael, speech at Cincinnati banc]uet 185, 1S7, iSg 

Schofield, John M,: 

Extract from letter of 41. 43 

Telegram from 1*52 

Slaughter, A. C. reference to --5 

Shears, DC, reference to Cincinnati entertainment 153 

Southern Granite Company, reference to ^47 

Staffs; 

l'ro\isionnl Department — 

Hewitt, Fayette 17. 135. '37 

Akers, Albert t7 

Pickett, Joseph Desha '7 

Stewart Ramsey H 17. '35. ^7° 

Sullivan, Samuel J ■ . 17. I35. ^7" 

Brien, L. Tierman '7 

Norman, Lute C '7 

Robinson, Frank \' '7 



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Division — 

Forrester, George ■ -"^S. I3S. i37. M5. 2?° 

France, Robert Lee 85. 135. 270 

White, Jere S 85 

White, John W 85, 135, 137, 270 

Jenkins, Benjamin F 85, 103, 273 

Tucker. Charles R 85 

Phipps, William B 85 

Complimentary — 

Ellacott, Joseph P 27, 97 

Bentley, Charles S 97 

Jones, Jenkin Lloyd 28. 97 

Revell, Alexander H 97 

McNeill, Malcom 97 

(lordon, Charles U 97 

Stanton, Henry T.. memorial poem at Oakwoods cemttery, Chicago .... 125-131 

Some of the ladies attendant, reference to 27, 28, loi. 135. 137, 139, 141 

Swift, Geo- B., speech at Chicago banquet 37 

Thanks to Chicago citizens 149 

Thanks to First regiment infantry. I N G 149 

The beginning of the end 283, 285 

Thomas, Hiram W,, speech at Chicago banquet 59. f'O 

Turner, Henry L : 

Speech at Chicago banquet 39-4' 

Presiding as toastmaster at Chicago banquet 39*83 

Commanding military in Oakwoods cemetery. Chicago 139 

At armory. First regiment, infantry, I N G 145-149 

Letter of, tendering courtesy 271, 272 

Letters of, endorsing plan for Chicago-south'^rn movement 280 

Tuthill, Richard S., letter of 74-75 

Underwood, John C; 

Speech at Chicago banquet 7i*74 

Introductory at Oakwoods cemetery. Chicago 1115-107 

Ceremony at Oakwoods cemetery. Chicago I35"J43 

Remarks at Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 158. 159 

Speech at Cincinnati banquet 171-174 

Prison and military record of. reference to 281. 282 

Endorsements of, by Gen Longstreet, and the Veteran Corps. First regiment 

infantry, I. N. G 282, 283 

Waller, Sarah Bell (deceased), reference to 213, 215 

Walthall. E. C, reference to 209. 211 

West. .\. J . reference to 206 

Wright, Marcus J. ; 

Speech at Cincinnati Chamber of Conimerce 161, 162 

Letter of 2S2 

Younge, J \V . letter of 273 



INSPECTION OF THE BLACK HUSSARS 
OF CHICAGO. 

THE CAVALRY ESCOKT AT THE DEDICATION OF THE COXEEDEKATE 
MONUMENT IN OAKWOODS CEME;TERY. CHICACiO, MAY 30. 1S95. 

IRostcr of "flnspcctor, Staff anJ> tbe (Iomman^. 

MAJ E. L. BRAND. " Hussar Squadron," 
Inspectinc, Officer, 

Staf(. 

FIRST LIEUT. SOL WOLFE. ■'Black Hussars." Adjutant. 

FIRST LIEUT. A. MATTHEWS. "Black Hussars," Inspector. 
FIRST LIEUT. P. E. CARPENTER. "Black Hussars." Quartermaster. 
FIRST LIEUT. CLAIR E. MORE. "Black Hussars." Judge-Advocate. 

FIRST LIEUT STUART JOHNSTONE, M. D.. "Chicago Hussars." Surgeon. 
FIRST LIEUT. RUFUS A, WHITE. D. D,. "Chicago Hussars." Chaplain 
SERGT. JOHN A FOSTER. "Chicago Hussars." Sergeant-Major (.\cting). 

BLACK HUSSARS. 

March 29. i8g6. 

Coniml^5ioncC> Officers. 

CAPT. SAMUEL B FOSTER. Commanding. 
FIRST LIEUT. H. CLAY GANO. SECOND LIEUT W. B. BRAINARD 

lEroopers— IRanft anO jFilc. 

FIRST SERGT A P STEPHENSON. 

SECOND SERGT. L. M. COPE, 

THIRD SERGT. W. J. SUTHERLAND. 

FOURTH SERGT. F. A. SUTCLIFFE. 

FIFTH SERGT GEORGE BELL. M. D.. Surgeon, 

SIXTH SERGT, S. W. JACKSON. Judge-Advocate, 

COLOR SERGT. E. M. HUNT. 

QUARTERMASTER SERGT CHAS GUNTHER, 

FIRST CORP. S. W. CROWEN, 

SECOND CORP. A R. STUMER, 

THIRD CORP. O E. ANDERSON. 

FOURTH CORP. A. SHAPIRO. 

FIFTH CORP. W, H. SIMPSON, Trumpeter. 

SOL WOLFE, C. E. MORE. P. E. CARPENTER, 

A. M.\THEWS. G L. HOPPER. R. T. BARTON. 

T. S. QUINCEY, R. J HALL. T. J. ROBESON. 

BEN L HILL. FRED H. WICKETT, S H. STRATTON. 

J L COCHRAN. F.G.JACKSON 




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Let Unity and ^tren^tl^ abide, 
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LIEUT.-COL. JNO. C. UNDERWOOD, 

FORT WARREN MILITARY PRISON, 
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May 2q - Junt; 2, 1*^95. 
BIOGRAPHIC: 

John Cox Underwood was born in Georgetown, D. C. September 12, 1S40. while his father was a member of Congress, and taken 
to Kentucky when an infant; received literary and scientific education, gradunting as civil engineer at Rensselaer Poly- 
technic Institute, Troy. N. Y., July 9. 1862; and received degree of Master of Arts from Center College, Danville, Ky.. in 1S76. 

Went south July, iS62, returned to Kentucky with Gen. Bragg in August, and went south again on Bragg's retreat, fall of 1S62. 

\'olunteer aide-de-camp, Confederate arcny, December. 1862; appointed first lieutenant engineers. C. S. A., spring 1863. 
appointed lieutenant-colonel Hodge's authorized cavalry, P. A. C. S., and ordered to recruit in Kentucky, May. 1S63; 
captured, sick with typhoid fever, on retreat of Bragg's army from Tullahoma, Tenn., summer 1S63; prisoner of state and 
war, confined at Louisville. Cincinnati and Fori Warren. Boston harbor. 1^63-64, and on parole fall of 1864-65. 

Chief engineer public works of Warren county. Ky., 1S66-6S; city engineer Howling Green, Ky.. 1868-75; consulting engineer 
State of Kentucky, 1872-75; councilman, Bowling Green. Ky.. 1869-70; mayor City of Bowling Green. Ky., 1870-72; lieu- 
tenant governor of Kentucky, 1875-79; chairman Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College commission, 1878-79. 

Grand master I. O. O. F. of Kentucky, 1872-73: grand representative from Kentucky and officer Sovereign Grand Lodge, 
I. O. O. F.. 1873-93; grand sire and generalissimo, I. O. O. F.. of the world, iSSS-90. 

Lieutenant-gener.1l commanding Patriarchs' Militant, 1SS5.95; major-general I'nited Confederate Veterans, i8gi 



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PREFACE AND HISTORIC OUTLINE. 

The recognition of real worth and valor is alike born within the 
American breast, whether the birth occnrs in the icy regions of the great 
lakes, under the snnuy skies of the gulf coast states, or in any of the 
sections of the more temperate climes between those extremes, and is 
especially instanced and most fitly illustrated by the honorable mention 
made by northern as well as southern people of the valorous achieve- 
ments of the boy heroes, cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, at 
the battle of Newmarket in the valley of Virginia, May 15, 11S64, where, 
under Gen. John C. Breckenridge, the "little devils," as they were 
called by the Federals, went into the fight as if on dress parade, and, 
losing in killed and wounded fully one-third of the command, never 
broke line of battle, but constantly closing up the gaps made by the 
missiles of the enemy and ever presenting a soldierly and perfect align- 
ment, drove the Union forces for miles, and, finally capturing a section 
of artillery on " Meems' " hill, turned the guns on SigeTs retreating 
forces and insured victor\-. The ragged Confederate veterans who had 
derided the bovs (their average age being under 17 years), calling them 
"trundle bed soldiers" as they marched past going to the front, when 
the battle was over and won with the cadet line shortened to two-thirds 
its original length and the little heroes standing with powder-begrimmed 
faces as if awaiting inspection, tossed their hats high in the air and gave 
vent to their admiration by enthusiastically cheering them , and still 
later, as the Confederate army marched along the valley toward Win- 
chester, many of the old battle-scarred veterans, not satisfied with their 
previous demonstration of appreciation of the boy soldiers because of 
their remarkable achievement, took the little fellows upon their shoulders 
and otherwise indicated that they almost worshiped them for the deter- 
mined bravery they had displayed. 

Again, the \'irginia Military Institute at Lexington, the "West Point 
of the south" and home of the boy battalion of such celebrated fame, was 
burned by order of the Federal Gen. Hunter on June 12, 1864; and, 
when his forces evacuated the town passing by the cemetery wherein the 
remains of the renowned Confederate, Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, were 
buried. Gen. Hunter ordered the panels of the fences removed and the 
Federal army marched h\ the grave of the Napoleonic ••Stonewall" with 
reversed arms and otherwise honored the valiant dead. Some two weeks 
later. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate command passed through Lexing- 



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ton ami. withmit j)rc-vious knowledge of Gen. Hunter's tribute to the 
immortal Jackson, he too caused the cemetery fences to be removed and 
lis veterans in gray, marching past the tomb of the distinguished 
soldier and Christian liero, made their lament and gave military honors 
to the loved commander dead. Thus two martial boilies, antipodes in 
thought and purpose, the one invaders of a state, the other tlefenders of 
its domain, and at war to the death, yet, each recognizing unsullied worth, 
Christian fortitude, bravery on field of battle, general nobleness of 
nature, and though representing a zenith and nadir in interest, the one 
respecting the private character and public deeds of an honorable foe, the 
other revering the memory of a loved ami devoted commander, both, 
actuated b)- a lofty sentiment and through a pre-historic action, loyal 
alike to true soldierly impulse and real manhood, paid the highest mili- 
tar\- courtesies to the remains of the dead chieftain. 

These citations clearl\' indicate the a.xiomatic truth that all enlight- 
ened and just people admire fortitude, bravery ami determined purpose 
under reputable circumstances, without regard to the right or wrong of 
the political or other cause which provided the opportunit\- tliat enabled 
the display of opposing deeds of heroism. 

Acting upon such hypothesis and further influenced by a noble act of 
friendship related in tlie body of this work, 1, as far back as the later 
"sixties." reasoned that the time would come when all sections and 
parties would recognize the individual and co]lecti\'e bravery, prowess, 
great fortitude and honor displayed by the defeated Confederates as well 
as by the victorious Federals, and then determined that I would attempt, 
through a life work if necessary, to bring about a general recognition of 
the valor and endurance displayed by both of the formerly opposing 
elements, and thereby inaugurate the harmonious re-uniting of the here- 
tofore belligerent sections of the country. 

Therefore, pursuant to such intention, my initial work began in a 
feeble waj' at my local city in southern Kentucky, was enlarged in some 
degree throughout the state and afterward widened and advanced, as 
time and opportunity admitted, until the summer of 1885 when, a very 
considerable attempt was made at Philadelphia, where I hoped, through 
a general encampment of National Guards and State Troops (the sons of 
veterans who wore both blue and gray), with a contingent of United 
States regulars for instruction, to bring about a reciprocal feeling of 
friendship by means of the social commingling of the descendants of the 
opposing veterans of the civil war. The demonstration was a military 
success, but the movement was attempted either too soon or the place 
unfortunately selected: anyway, the purpose failed, and although it was 




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approved hy all tin- most prmniniiit i^cm-rals llvini;, who had served in 
lioth the Union and Confederate armies, yet thi' populace started the cr)' 
oi •■rebels in the park" (when I was the oidy ex-rebel there), and the 
long hoped for object was cfefeated. The unexpectetl outcome, of course, 
threw a vt-ry great damper upon the ardor of my desire, called a "holdiy" 
by others, but it was not sufficient to kill the germ of the original inten- 
tion, so, will n opiKU'tunily occurred, in the fall of iSSy, I l)rouglit bat- 
talions of State Troops from Kentucky and Alabama to meet National 
Ciuard organizations of Ohio at its capital city, Columbus, on an occasion 
of a great demonstration by a civic-militant order of which I was lioth tfie 
military commander and civil ruler. Meeting with a desperate accident, 
however, that very nearly cost me my life, I was lost to the work for the 
time antl my labors were again futile. It looked as if fate was against 
the successful culmination of such a laudable enterprise, but on my 
recovery plans were again formulated witli the view of carrying out my 
original conception to a triumpliant termination; and, regariling the 
great northwestern metropolis as tire olijective point from whence to 
continue operations, I moved my headquarters to Chicago in Decemlier 
of the same \ear, conceived and, in .\ugust, I'^yo, conihu ted one of the 
largest civic-military demonstrations b\- a fraternal order probably ever 
made in said city. It was a great success so far as display and the 
advertising of tht.' order was concerned, but owing to the sparse attend- 
ance of members and organizations from southern states its dual purpose 
failed. Matters remained in statu quo until tlie summer of i8gi. when I 
joineil The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago and was appointed a 
committee of one to raise moneys to erect a monument o\er the Confed- 
erate dead in Oakwoods cemetery, and in December of the sanu' year I 
was commissioni'd and placed in conuiiand of tlie Division of the Niuth- 
west and afterward in April, 1892, of the Provisional Department of the 
North, United Confederate Veterans.* 

The position attaineil enabling me to reach the entire Confederate 
veteran element and southern people generall)', and the field of opera- 
tion being so broad as to cover tlie northern states from ocean to ocean, 
and embrace the southern border states east of the Mississippi river, I at 
once foresaw the possibility of success and again became enthused with the 
now almost certainty of being able to carry out my original purpose and 
inaugurate the re-establishing of friendly, political, social and business 
relations between the two great sections of the country, and, conse- 
quently, once more began the reciprocal northern-southern movement 
with renewed vigor. 



*See documents in addentluin. 



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Learning that the ex-Confederate vVssociation of which I liad become 
a member had been organized shortly after Gen. U. S. Grant's funeral 
in New York City, August 8, 1885, and was the outgrowth of the senti- 
ment created by and through the liberal action of the distinguished 
southern generals on such memorable occasion, who, out of respect for 
the opposing victorious general and ex-president, followed his remains 
in honor to the grave, and discovering that two G. A. R. posts under 
command of Col. Charles R. E. Koch had decorated the Confederate 
graves in Oakwoods cemetery as early as Ma\' 30. 1S76, which courtesy 
has been generally practiced since, and, upon further investigation, 
having ascertained that the secretary of war had granted authority 
to The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago to erect a monument 
over the Confederate dead buried on tlie government lot in said ceme- 
tery, I felt that the time was ripe for successful operation, and that 
Chicago of all northern cities was the place in which to begin work, 
and consequently determined to commence solicitation for the monu- 
ment fund. 

The ex-Confederate Association turned over to me as a nucleus upon 
which to build, nearly .f! 1,600, the proceeds of the Gordon lecture, with 
interest, and I began in person and through appointed agents the solici- 
tation of contributions, and finally raised that moniunent asset through 
subscriptions, absolute and under guarantee, to nearly §12,000. I then 
designed and contractcil for the erection of the said nionunient as it now 
stands, at a total cost of ;f;io,ooo for pedestal, shaft and statue: and, 
afterward, upon increasing such fund materially, of 55,000 additional for 
improving grounds and by estimating donated ordnance decorations; 
and in addition to which, by embracing the expenditures for banquets 
and entertainments of guests during the dedicator}' occasion, various 
other cash outlays and estimated values of donations in material, service, 
etc., the whole approximated '' S2^,ooo. This constituted a material 
memorial, surpassing all monuments heretofore erected to the memory 
of private soldiers, with dedicatory ceremonies culminating in such an 
open air reception, given by the populace of the great city to the visiting 
southerners and Confederate element over the very trenched graves of 
its dead soldier\' as had never been experienced anywhere else, when in 
fact over 100,000 people were within the borders of Oakwoods cemetery 
to see the Confederate monument dedicated. What other city imder 
the sun could have done such a thing? What place other than Chicago, 
with its cosmopolitan elements, changing in sentiment from the bitterest 



*See the account of the organization and work of The ex-Confederate Associ-ition of Chicago 
and the statement of receipts and expenditures in addendum, etc. 




city liuriiijj; the war to one of the gieati'St liberaHty — one that extended 
the right hand of fellowship, open, and with an honest heart heating 
responsive to tlie return of friendship from the south, silenth' expressing 
a welcome to its representatives: not as conquered foes, not as men who 
are prodigal children, but as citizens of one countr_v and one people. 

One of the broadest men of Illinois and in the United States has said 
he would be glad to st-e all monuments, material and idealistic, com- 
memorating events tluring tlie civil strife between the sections, entirely 
obliterated, that the whole country might forget past differences and l)e 
as brothers once morel Such sentiment, certainly liberal as coming trom 
a victor, is undoubtedly politic, 3'et it cannot be successfully grafted so 
long as the desire to herakl valorous achievements exists in the human 
breast; for as time softens the belligerent feelings, former enemies recog- 
nize and acknowledge the great deeds of their earl)' foes. Examine into 
the dedication of the Chattanooga and Chickamauga battlefield parks 
uniler the auspices of the geni'ral go\ernment. and the memories of the 
braver}-, heroism and chivalrj'of the American soldier can Imt he indelibly 
stamped upon the hearts and brains of a now united and patriotic people. 
Go to Chickamauga and see the marbh- and granite monuments erected to 
the northern soldiery that fell on that sanguinary field and you will find 
/terc a magnificent shaft to a regiment from a particular state, ///(vv a superb 
column to a battery from another section and so on through the roster of 
honorable dead that wore the blue, while there can scarcely be found a 
monumental mark raised by the impoverished southern people (k'sig- 
nating the gory bed of the'ir heroic defenders who won the battle; but 
the "strike back" there is manifest, at every turn and on all sides the 
teaching of impact and resistance is self-evident, and the ability of the 
southerners A' i/i> is silently heralded by the numerous monuments reared 
in honor of their dead foes. 

Again, it is accredited to none other than the martyri_d President 
Lincoln, the most revered and almost worshiped sim of Kentuckw 
adopted by the great State of Illinois, when the battle points of great 
Federal renown on the field of Gett\'sburg were being shown to him and 
the liravery of those who there fell "wearing the blue" were recalled by 
citations of their military achievements, of saving in his laconic way, 
"The johnnies were no slouches. " So long as history lasts and such 
liberal recognition of opposing elements are made by the most exalted, 
'twill be an impossibility to forget the deeds of the brave men who even 
in fratricidal strife, through deeds of "derring do," have made the name 
of the American soldier a synonym for bravery, fortitude and honor. I^'or 
the comradeship resulting from the stopping of bullets in battle arr;iy, is 




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next akin to the loving friendship dehcioush' incited In the honeymoon 
kisses under the holy bonds of the wedding ring; and therefore among 
the Federals wiio fought the war to a hnish in the field, there are none 
that refuse to acknowledge the southern battle flag to be an Iionorahlc 
arihi-i't- of a brave and chivalrous people; and of those who fought 
'neath the folds of that starry cross, as real Americans, without having 
been watered through immigration, all cherish the Stars and Stripes as 
the revolutionary insignia of their forefathers, and now hail with 
patriotic pride the same glorious flag of the re-united states constituting 
the greatest nation on earth. Acting upon this idea I designed the 
vignette decorating the invitation to the dedication of the monument, 
where the goddess of liberty is represented as holding the national 
banner on high and pointing to the southern battle flag lying on a pile of 
cannon balls at her feet as an honorable arcliivi\ After nearly two 
years' application to Congress, I finally secured a field battery of four 
cannon of distinguished battle record, with shot and shell, from the 
general government with which to ornament its grounds in Oakwoods 
cemetery, and have still further obtained permission to erect a flag-staff 
on the said burial plat from which to fly the United States flag, thereby 
constituting the Confederate trenches an embr\o national cemetery. 
The large list of pensions borne by the government and given wholly 
to Federal soldiery are paid from a treasury partly supplied by internal 
ta.xation largely from southern states; why, then, should not the Con- 
federate dead be cared for as those of their successful brothers in the 
same country, where all states and sections contribute in like ratios to 
the support of the government of the Union? The castles of our 
ancestral isle are traditioned with honorable scars from attacks during 
the "Wars of the Roses," therefore why should not America's beautiful 
slopes be decorated by entwining the e.\(juisite flowers of the south with 
those of sterner hues from the north in harmonious forgetfulness, that 
they may blossom together in friendship and reciprocal interest? 

It is not now profltable to discuss the right or wrong of the past, 
whicli has been settled In' arbitrament of arms, neither should the 
question be raised as to the morals of Massachusetts selling her slaves 
and South Carolina holdmg hers, nor as to the profit of merchandising 
the tiegro on the block in New York or from the sugar cane fields of the 
Mississippi "coasts" and cotton plantations in other parts of the south; 
but the great recognition of the dc facto status of the states is unmistak- 
abl)- shown through the action of that typical southerner. Wade Hampton, 
a planter and slaveholder in the past, who, in accepting full)' the issue of 
the unequal strife, visited Chicago to commemorate southern soldiery in 



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inonumental trilmti': and tliere, coniuiiuglini,' with a f(_irnieii\ opposini,' 
ultra people, in turn, being enthusiastically received by scores of thous- 
ands of her citizens turning out to welcome him as the orator of the 
memorable occasion. \'erily, the philosophical acceptance of tlK- ine\ - 
itable. has resulted in good for the two opposing classes and most fitly 
illustrates the beauty of forgctfiilness in the interest of a united people; 
and now, in upholding the cause of the republic, both Cavalier and 
Puritan, in self abnegation because of the bitter hatreds and unjust 
actions of the past, might equally acknowledge that eacli could then 
have truly said: 

All that's beautiful in me, 

Is the way I'd like to be : 

and harmonize in a reconstructive friendship, though recognizing the 
frailties and selfishness of individuals and classes, while uniting in and 
maintaining the noble sentiment of national patriotism. 

In brief, with such aims and purposes mj' conceptions have been suc- 
cessfully carried out; an<l the transcripts of speeches, orations, poems, 
prayers, etc., presented, compiled from original papers and stenographic 
notes taken at the time and afterward examined, corrected or verified 
b\' the authors, and ceremonies formulated by myself, are pulilished 
as constituting the cherished history of an epoch ever to be remembered 
and appreciated throughout the entire Land of the Free. 

The work treats, ifiialiiii, of the northern-southern demonstration 
from its definite beginning in the reception of the southern generals at 
Chicago to the finish at Fort Thomas, Ky., giving rosters of bodies, 
organizations, guests and other prominent personages, addresses and 
descriptions, together with an addendum embracing incidental historic 
references, other pertinent communications and the resultant initial 
northern-southern fraternization, and contains superb half-tone engravings 
and correct etchings of the principal actors anil abettors of the move- 
ment, etc., and is hereby pronndgated as true in its ever\- partindar 
and vouchsafed by original documents in m\" possession. 

The whole is presented for what it is worth, and it is hoped th.it it 
will receive the consideration it deser\'es, be that great or small. 

Ver\- truly, 

THF AUTHOR. 




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LIKUT.-CEN. JOHN B. GORDON. 

AT APPOMATTOX. 




Ma\-June, 1^95 

BIOGRAPHIC: 

John Brown Gordon, was born in Upson county, Ga.. February fi, 1832; educated at the I'niveisity of Georgia; read law and 

was admitted to the bar, ai tlie beginninK of the civil war he was living; in Jackson county, Ala. 
He first raised a troop of cavalry, which was declined by the governor of Alabama as not needed he then recruited a company 
of infantry, composed of hardy men around the Racoon mountain, and was elected captain, which command was 
accepted and became a company of the Sixth .Alabama regiment. 
Commissioned in the Confederate Statfs army:— 

Captain of tlu- "Racoon Roughs." Sixth regiment infantry Alabama volunteers, iS6r: elected major, shortly after the regi 

mental organization; lieutenant-colonel, December 26, 1S61 and colonel April 2.S. iS(>2; brigadier-geneial. F. A. C. S.. 

November 1. 1S62: major-general. P. A. C. S.. May 14, 1S64; acting lieutenant-general commanding army corps of 

Lee's army i8ri.(-fj5. 
He was remarkable for his personal gallantry, quickness of perception and determined bravery on the battlefield; 

received eight severe wounds, the bloodiest being a shot in the face at Sharpsburg which he will carry as a 

scar- jewel lu the gravf ; he was active in all the battles engaged in by the.^rmy of Northern Virginia and "fought his 

command to a fra/zle" in reaching Appomattox. 
He i)racticed law after the war and rendered valuable service to his state; was Democratic candidate for governor in 1S68; 

member of the national Democratic convention and presidental elector for state at-large in 186^ and 1S72; United 

States senator. March 4, if>73. and re-elected in iS79> 
Governor of Georgia in iH«6 and re-elected in iSSS; United States senator in 1890-97. 
General, commanding United Confederate Veterans, since the permanent organization of that federation. 



MORTUARY AND M()NUM1-:NT R1'I'()K'|- 





UnITKU CciN'l KliKkA I !•; \'l;r KUANS, 

Division axu I'kovisionai, Dkpar imkni 
HeadijuariilKS. 



Chk \(;ii. J;inuary 20. iSgfi. 

Gi>/. [(>lin R. Gi>rdi<n, Coiiiiiidiiiiiiii:; L'liili-i/ Ciiiih'tlnal,' i'l/i-raii-. : 

Siiv \\ ii Ci>Mi<Aiil 1 li.ivc tile lioiidi" to make final report of the c ondi- 
tiou of the division and ilepartment nnder my command, .n'ive a synopsis 
of the statistics of Confederate soltiiers who died in military prisons and 
are buried in nortliern soil, and especial!}' herald the procedures incidental 
to tlie erection and dedication of the monument to 6,000 soutlurn sold- 
iers whose remains are trenched in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicai^o. 

Pursuant with powers originally granted by The ex-Confederate Asso- 
ciation of Chicago, Camp No. S, U. C. V*., afterward approved by \our- 
self, as per orders and olln r official documents issued from the oliice of 
your adjutant-general, ami b\ authority delegated through subseipient 
election b\' the U. C. \'. lederation itself, I n.-cruited ami organized into 
camps a large number ol Confederate veterans living east of the Miss- 
issippi ri\er within the limits of my provisional department, collected 
and reported rosters of the Confederate dead bnrn-d in various northern 
cemeteries. 

The general conditions of ni\' cli\ isions, so wideh' separated, are i;ood, 
antl have been referred to in detail in \w\ biennial i<porl under date of 
April 20, iSg4, and the mortuary lists, cemetery charts and other data 
relating to deceased soldiers buried within the territorial bounds of 1113' 
command, which were given in part in said biennial report and subse- 
quently compiled more fulh and ]iublisheil m supplement thereto, are 
now reviseil and presented in lin.il tabulation, iis follows: 

WAR rivlSON CKMETERliiS. 

REVISED Nl'MtRICAI. ROSTER OF CoNI-EUlCRATE SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN MILITARY 
PRISONS AND ARE BURII'D IN NORTHERN SOIL 

ir.i.ixois 

At Alton — 

In the Confederate cemeter}'. the military iirisim-dead , 

interments known and reported t , 57S 

Interments unknown, number reported. (140 

Ciiiri,:/ for~,i'ayd j, j l .S 



*See official documents in .nldftniuni. 



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flrou;^Jlt for'ioavii 

At Camt Butler — 

In the Confederate cemetery, ilie military prison-ileatl. 
interments known ami reported 

Cmi AGO — 

In Oakwood^ ceinetery, the Camp Douglas prison-dead; 
interments l-nown and reported (J, C. U.'s official roster) .... 
Interments known and reported (Government smallpox roster) 
Interments estimated as on registers burned in 1S71 

Mound City — 

In the National cemetery, the military prison dead; interments 
reported (roster promised by War Department) 

Km K Island — 

In the Confederate cemetery at arsenal, the military prison- 
dead, interments known and reported 

Tot.'il in Illinois 

INDIANA 
Indianai'olis — 

In Greenlawn cemetery, the Camp Morton prison-dead; inter- 
ments known and reported 

Total in Indiana 

MARYLAND 

LotiDON Park — 

In the National cemetery, the military prison-dead; inter- 
ments unknown (statistics missing but estimated at) 

I'oiNT Lookout — 

In the Confederate cemetery, the military prison-dead; inter- 
ments known and reported 

Total in Maryland 

NKW JF.kSKV 
*FiNNs Point — 

In the Confederate cemetery, the Fort Delaware prison-dead; 

interments reported (roster should be in the War Department. 

. but cannot be found, and the number of deaths reported seem 

to be too f ew ) ... 

Total in New Jersey 

NEW YORK. 
Klmira — 

In Woodlawn National cemetery, the military prison-dead; 

interments known and reported 

Cnirietf foi-d'ard 



412 

I , goo 



2.218 
470 

11,2 29 

34 

I,g6o 
lo.gii 



1,484 



1,484 



3 44. => 



S 54.5 



1-434 



1.434 



2.947 



2.947 17.374 



['Official note 1 



REroRn AND Pension Office, ) 



War Department. , 

Washington. January 17, 1S96. \ 
Gen. yolin C. Uilili-iiuoo,/. Chiiago. III.: 

Many of" tiie Confederate prisoners wlio died in confinement at Fort Delaware were buried at Finn's 
P«iint. N. ).. but no roster of ttiose buried ttiere is known to be in existence. No record has been found 
of any prison at Finn's Point. N. J., noi lias anylliing been found to sliow that any Confederate 
prisoners were ever confined at ttiat place. 

By autliority of the secretary of war 

F. C, AINSWORTH. t'.'/. r 5. Army. Chief 0/ Office. 



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LON 



Br,>iii^'lit /I'l-.niiJ 

; Island — 

In Cyiiress Hills cemdery, tlic ni)lit,ir\ inison-dcad: inier- 
ments known ;iiid n-pnrted 



2. "47 



,,8S 



Total in Xfu York 

At COLUMBl'S — OHIO. 

In the Confederate and city cemeteries, the Camp Chase 
prison-dead: interments known and reported (J. C, U.'s olli- 

cial roster) 

Johnson s Isi„\N'ii (L E. near Sandusky)— 

In the Confederate cemetery, the military prison-deail: 
interments known and reported (| C 11 s odicial rosterl.... 

Total in Ohio 

At Philaiieli'Hia— I'IvNNSYLV AN" I A. 

In the National cemetery, principally, the military prison- 
dead removed from Chester Rural cemetery and the Odd- 
Fellows' cemetery, interments known and reported 

PiTTSiiURc; — 

In Allegheny cemetery, the militarv prison-de.ul, iiitertiuiits 
known and reported 

Total in I'ennsy K ania 

At Madison— WISCONSIN. 

In the Confederate l,uryin.s; plot of cemetery, the military 
prison-dead, interments reported and rosters promised by 
War Department 

Total in Wisconsin 



2o6 



224 



15 



137 




3.435 



2. 367 



239 



137 



Total number of interments of deceased prisoners re- 
ported 2^.552 

There are possibly 100 Confederate soldiers buried in the Soldiers' 
Home National cemetery at Washington, D. C. and doubtless an aggre- 
gate of a few hundred more at other points, but the total of such inter- 
ments throughout the department, recorded and unknown, will not vary 
materially from the number reported above which will approxi- 
mate 24,000 (unless there were many more deaths at Fort Delaware 
than reported ). 

The mortuary rosters heretofore reported and filed with the ad|iitaiit- 
general embrace the lists of Confederate soldiers who di<(l in military 
prisons, and, besides recording their names, give dates of di^aths in all 
cases and, with few exceptions, the companies, regiments ami states 
from whence the deceased hailed, so that it will be an easy matter to 
ascertain desired information covered by such records. 

The foregoing tabulated statements have been compib tl from ilata 
mainly furnished by the U. S. War Department, and. in no instance, has 
the battlefield dead been considered. 



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Special reference is liereliy made to the L;oo(i condition of the *Con- 
federate cemetery at the government arsenal near Rock Island, III., and 
much praise and sincerest thanks are due (jen. D. W. Flagler, chief of 
ordnance. V . S. .\ . for accomplishing such work. 



M()N['MENT TO CONFEDERATE DE.XD AT CHICACiO. 

In this connection I make s\'noptical reference to the construction 
and dedication of the monument erected over the southern dead iMiried 
in Oakwoods cemetery-, Chicago, and demonstrations incidental thereto, 
giving below a classified account of receipts and expenditnres, balanced, 
aggregating on both credit and debit sheets nearly ,^25,000 (which would 
have amonnteti to a much larger sum, had un tour years' services and 
the value of the floral contributions from the south been estimated 1. as 
follows: 

FINANCIAL STATICMENT, 

Classified Reckepts, 

To cash frorii Clnc;i,i;n ami northern sources Si i.SoS.G^ 

To cash and credit from the Southern Granite Co .uul 

various southern sources 4,896.63 $111,705.26 

To cash \alue of donations: — 

By the U S Government, of ordnance 3,500.00 

H> \arious railro:ids, of transportation 2,050.00 

By Hotel and I'alace Car Co. of enterl.iinment 

and accommodation ijoo.oo 

By sundry business firms, of printinj;, eti: 005.00 

By the Cemetery Association, of work and mate- 

'■'al 557-78 

By credit from \;uious sources, of ser\ ict^ labor 

and material 329. 4.S 7.942.26 

.\!Js;regate $24,647.52 

Classified Exi'Enditi'kes. 

By cash :ind eschange for erection of monument Sio.ooo.oo 

By cash balance entry for value of cannon, shot and shell. 3.S15.S0 

By cash balance entry for transportation. sleepinj< c:ir 

accommodation and hotel (•ntert:iinm nt of guests. 2.950.00 

By cash paid for b;inqiiets. martial music ,iiul regimen t.il 

incidentals 2,iS.S . 34 

B\' cash and don;iiion credit entries for printing .'intl pub- 
lishing I. ^c)o. 85 

By cash and donation credit entries for grand stand, decora- 
tions, voc'il music, carriages, etc 1)94 .i>o 

By cash paid, account office and headquarters, assistants. 

stationery, postage, telegrams, expressage. etc g6i . iS 

By cash paid, account traveling expenses and promotion. . . 90S. 71 

Orrrit"!/ ft'V'i'nrd $23,208.88 

(*See docuinenl reLitinj; therelo in aildt-ndurn 



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J-h'o/f^ht for-tiuird 

By cash and donation credit entries for clmriiii;. unilibinL; 

and pyramid foundations 

V>\ casli and donation credit entries fur niDculclinH statue. 

]iainting ordnance, boxing, for spi'ciai assistance. 

and \arious sundries 

By cash in the hands of Col. H. L. Turner, seer t.irv and 

treasurer of t^iti/ens' Committee 

Aggregate 




i,4J.S.()4 
$24,647.52 



]iy deducting the cash in the hands ot tlie secretary of the citizens' committee 
from the aggregate ($24, 047.52^575, 92), the remainder of $24,571,110 will represent and 
cover the total outlay. 

Note. —.\ detailed statement of hills r.cei\, able and payable, under hn.d .audit, with 
copies of the certificates of their correctness .ind approval are to be found in addendum 

The descriptive nferencrs to the ceremonial of the cirdicatioii. recep- 
tion of the Confederate generals and other southern gnests, their enter- 
tainment by the good citizens of Chicago, Cincinnati and V . S. army 
officers at Fort Thomas, Ky., are made in the special wnik following, 
which is also replete with orations, poems, speeches and pra^'ers and 
embellished with engravings and etchings of the prominent actors, otlier 
distinguished personages, the monument and its accessories. 

The preface hereto constitutes a historic outline of \w\ indix'itliial and 
public actions prior to and under commission from you and the veteran 
federation, relating to things jiertinent to the U. C. ^^, the Confederate 
dead buricil in the northern states and the general northern-southern 
movement toward establishing harmonious social and business relations 
between the two great sections of the I'nited States. This, together 
with the body of the book and addendum, containing various documents 
for reference, to prevent repetition, are referred to and hereby made part 
of this report as to matters applicable through the discharge 01 duties 
assignt-d, and otherwise considered admissible, because of conve\-ing 
information given in channels interesting to the south and its people. 

Thanking you both jiersonally and officially for the numerous cour- 
tesies e,\tended, valuable assistance fre(|uently rendered and fiilh appre- 
ciating the confidence reposed in and favor shown me by 30urself, The 
ex-Confederate Association of Chicago and the U. C. V. federation, 
generally, I remain. 

\ery truly and fraternally, your obedient servant. 

Major-Genrral ('(inimamlin^ 




ACTINK STAFF 

FKcnisuix \i. nF:FARTMF:NT ov iiif: NOKTH. U. C. \' 

I'.icc :. MAI.OKN. JOHN C. INDEKWOOD of Kemucky, Comuiaiuiins llep.iitnieni. 



KOSTER OK STAFF. 

No. I. 1!RU;,-G1;N. I'AVKTTK HEWITT of Kentucky, Clliet of Sl»tt, 

No. 2. COL. ALBKKT AKEKS of Waslungton Ciiv, Inspector-General. 

No, 3, COl.. lOSKVH DKSHA PICKKTT of KiveV Forest, 111,, Cl1aplain-Gener.1l. 

No, 4, COL. KAMSKY H. STEWART of Cliicaao, Conimissarv.General. 

No s. COL. SAMl EL 1. SILLIVAN of Cliicaso, (Ouartenn.ister-General, 

No, 6, COL. I, TIEKMAN BKIEN of Maryland, Volunteer Aid-.ie-Camp. 

No. r, Ln:i'T,-COI. lite C. NORMAN of Kentucky, Assi AdjutamCeneral. 

No, ."i. MAJ. FRANK V. ROUINSON of W.isliinsion City, Special Transportation .\id. 




THE DEPARTMENTAL STAEF. 

Tlie Provisional Department of the Xortli embracini; sucli a \'ast 
scope of territory-, a large staff was necessarily appointed througliout its 
limits, and of that body certain members constitute the active staff (see 
engravings and roster on preceding page). The two officers from Chicago 
have been of great assistance to the commander: Col. R. II. Stewart, 
besides soliciting and collecting a considerable amount toward the 
construction of the monument, accompanied him to the south and rendered 
valuable aid at the United Confederate \'eteran convention at Birming- 
ham, x\la. : and Col. S. J. Sullivan having originally solicited and collectetl 
the greatest amount toward the monument fund obtained by an\' of the 
assistants. Maj. E. \\ Robinson, as special transportation aid, rendered 
important service, and the other officers of the staff, in consequence of 
their attendance at the monument dedication and discharge of duties 
assigned them, are deserving of special mention. 

To the entire active staff, individually and collectiveh", apj)reciati\ e 
thanks are hereb\' extended. 



HIOGKAPHIC SYNOPSIS OF THE STAFF. 

FAYETTE HEWITT entered the Confederate army at the beginning of the war, and, serving as 
adjutant-genera! of the Kentucky "Orphan" brigade, was in all the battles in which that renowned 
command participated. Since the vvar he has been adjutant and quartermaster-general of Kentucky, and 
it was through his labors that the Kentucky war claims against the government were settleil. He is now 
president of a bank in Frankfort. Ky. He is popular with his army comrades and with all wlio know him. 

ALBERT AKERS entered the Confederate army from Tennessee as lieutenant of his company, 
and subsequently became captain He was twice very severely wounded and wa? assigned to staff duty, 
and for gallantry and meritorious service promoted major and assistant adjutant-eeneral. He is one of 
the general otticers of an old line life insurance company; is noted for his genial disposition and is 
regarded as one of the best rac'jfttcurs throughout the states 

JOSEPH DESHA PICKETT went south, from Kentucky, at the beginning of the war and espoused 
the Confederate cause, serving as chaplain of the Kentucky "Orphan" brigade. After the close of 
hostilities he returned to his native state, and engaged in literary pursuits and ministerial vocations, He 
is now living in ripe old age, respected and beloved by all who knoi\' him. 

RAMSEY H STEWART entered tne Confederate service in the Twelfth Mississippi infantry, 
and, fighting in the ranks three years of the war, was engaged in the battles of the Army of Northern 
Virginia until severely wounded; when, on pai tial recovery, he was detached an<i served in the ordnance 
department and on speci^^I duty. He was a typical Confederate infantry soldier. After the war he came 
to Chicago and engaged in the decorating business, where he lias met with great success, and is now 
president of his company. 

SAMUEL J. Sl'LLlVAN enlisted as a Confederate soldier from Kentucky and served with Morgan's 
cavalry throughout the war Upon the surrender in 1S65, he went to Chicago and engaged in wholesale 
mercantile business. He is the commandant of Camp Chicago, No. 8. U. C, V.. .md is a type ol .1 frank, 
open-hearted, chivalrous southern soldier. 

L. TiERMAN BRIEN entered the Confederate service at the beginning of the wai ami became 
colonel of the First Virginia cavalry and afterwa-'d served with distinction on the stalt of Gen. J. E. B. 
Stuart. After the war he engaged in railroad business at various points throughout the country and at 
different times has been the successful and popular business manager of the Palmer House, Chicago. 

LUTE C. NORMAN entered the Confederate army from Kentucky, became captain of his company 
and for gallant and meritorious service was promoted major of his regiment. He served with distinction 
through the war and upon its close began the practice of law and. entering politics, was elected auditor 
of public accounts of his state, which position he has held for many consecutive terms. 

FR.\NK V. ROBINSON of the Ceorgetown. D. C. -Virginia family by that name, has for many years 
been employed in the treasury department of the I'nited States, and is regaided as one of the most 
competent and reliable government employes. He is an energetic genial gentleman and had transporta- 
tion charge of the party of southerners between Washington City and Chicago May zS-June 3, iSys. 



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GENERAL CITIZEXS' C(3MMITTi: E. 

ENTERTAINMENTS INCIDENTAL TO THE DEDICATION OF THE 
CONFEDERATE MONL^MENT. CHICAGO. 
MAY 29-31, 1895, 

Chicaco, May. 1^95. 
Gen. Joint C. Uiidfiwood, C/iicaxi'. Illiiwis: 

Dear Gkxekai. — In reference to the tU'dication of the Confed- 
erate monument in (Jakwoods cemeter}- and the re-union of prominent 
generals of both the Union and Confederate armies, on May 30, 1895. we 
most heartily endorse the [nirpose expressed anil will he pleased to serve 
as members of your reception committee, 

Wry respectfully. 



Henry L TiirniT. 
]. J Mitchell, 
C. L, HiitchinNnii. 
Ferdinand W Feck, 
P D, Armour. 
I.yman J Oage, 
E Z. Leiter, 
J J. \\ Odell. 
Melville E Stone, 
John C. Black, 
Potter Palmer. 
T, W Harve\. 



>1 N Iliginbotham, 
Washinj;ton Hesing, 
Geo, M Pullman. 
.\. O, Slaughter. 
William Deering, 
Joseph Stockton. 
H. W Bolton 
Will I'enn Ni\on. 
D. H. Burnham. 
Ale.vander H Revell 



Cyrus H McCormick, Ezra J, Warner, 



J W Doane. 
\Vm H. Rand, 
W .\ .\le\ander. 
Otto Young. 
R W Patterson. 



Gilbert B. Shaw 
W G Ewing. 
O H Horton. 
W. D Kerfoot, 
II, W Wheeler, 



H C Chatrield-T,ivlor, Francis T Colbv. 



('has. Henrotin. 
E, S- Lacey, 
Orson Smith, 



Edward f , Lawrence. Owen F ,Aldis. 



Franklin H Head, 



Mariin ,\. Rverson, Thnm,is G Windes 



R. S Tuthill, 
M, F. Tuley, 
Francis .\dams, 



[ohn B.irton Payne, 
Nornian Williams, 
Alfred (.)rendorfl. 



Chas R E. Koch. Geo M Moulton, 
John R. Walsh. Chas. Fitz Simons. 



C M Henderson, 

I T Harahan, 
M M Kirkman. 
Victor F Lawson, 
John S. Hannah, 

II H Kohls.iat, 
S P. McConnell, 



Harry G. Selfridge, HempsteadWashburne.F^ S. Conway, 



Frank Baker. 
C;eo. B. Swift. 
R. A, Waller. 
Chas B. Farwell. 
Stuyvesant Fish. 
Marvin Hughitt. 
M E, Ingalls. 
C ]. Blair, 
(ieo. Schneider. 
R P>, Campbell, 
Auilrew McNally, 
Samuel Baker. 



N, B Ream. 
M D Wells, 
H. W. Thomas. 
Luther Latlin Mills 
Byron L Smith. 
R G Chandler, 
G. H. Wheeler. 
Chas Deering, 
John R Wilson, 
L. T Brien 
Fritz Glogauer, 
Charles C Gordon, 



Robert Lindblom, 
Samuel Fallows, 
Clarence C. Chene 
F H Cooper, 
W H Crocker, 
j. P. Ellacott. 
T C Haynes, 
Joseph R Dunlop, 
H G I'urinton, 
A J. Canfield, 
Alfred Russell, 
Frank S Weigley, 
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T H Wickes, 
C. C. Kohlsaat. 
Allison V- Armour. 
Robert L. Henry. 
.A, .A. Sprague. 
Geo. E. P. Dodge, 
James Fentress, 
W H Newman 
C C Bonney. 
John H Hamline. 
C S. Bentley. 
C, M, Rogers, 
("has E Fargo, 
W. Vernon Booth, 
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 
VVni .\ .\mberg. 
llenrv W Bishop, 
Swan A. Miller, 
Malcom McNeill. 
M. L. C. Funkhouser. 
Richard Michaelis, 
F"red M. Farwell, 
A, B, Capron, 
Hugh T. Reed, 



©roanioation 



l-'FRDIXANMi \V PKCK, Pi.sidrnl 




ALKXANDKK H Kl'VKLI., 

First \'irf-|iresi(lont 



JOHN C UNDFKWODli. 

Seccmcl \'ii c'-|in-siilenl 



HI-.NK\ I. 'I'I'I\X1-:K. 

^i'( ici.Lr\ and Treasurer 



Eiccutivc Committee 

R0BP:RT a WALIJ'IK, rii.iirni.in IIKNKV L rCKNI'.K', \i,>-( liairniaii 

JOHN ], MITCHELL WILIJAM 1> KLKFOOT KOIIFKT 1. III;NKV 

SAMUEL FALLOWS MFJAMLLE E. STONE H G Sl-M.l' K 1 1 Ki I'l 

GILBERT B. SHAW CllAKLESl' COKUON M. L. C FUN K I K )11SI':K 

AND KXMlKKIrlo 

FERrnNANi) w ri-:cK ALF:xA\ni-:K it rf:vell johx r undek'Wdod 



Committee on Huvitations 

H G SELERILKiE IIEXRV I. TfRNEK FERIUXAXH \V liU'K 

ROBERT 1. Ili:XRV jolIXO IX I iHK Wi ii i| i 



iPvesf' Committee 

MldAII-I.E E STONE II H KOHLSAAT WM I'ENN XIXtiN 

R W T'ATTERSOX VIOTOK 1' LAWSON WASHINf.TOX MI-SING 

JOHN R WILSON I'RANK S WEICiLEY JOSEPH R lUIXI.OI' 

FRITZ GLOGAFER RICHAKI> MIGHAFLIS 

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RECEPTION AT THE RAILROAD DEPOT. 

[Extract from the City Press of Chicago.] 

The gray-liaired members of that band of southern warriors who fought so bravely 
during the war were welcomed to Chicago the morning of May 29. 1895 They came 
from the south to participate in the dedication of the Confederate monument and their 
hearts were filled with thankfulness at the thought that Chicago had been the first to 
unite the blue and the gray in bonds of sympathy and affection. Aged and world-worn 
though they were, they carried themselves in a soldierly way. and grasped the hands of 
those who welcomed them in a most heartv manner 

Among the guests who had arrived via Cincinnati o\ er the Big Four Route, was 
Gen. Longstreet, whose long white mustache and flowing side whiskers gave him a 
martial appearance. The citizens' reception committee assembled at the Palmer House 
on the morning of the 29th, and escorting Gens. Longstreet, and S. D, Lee and ladies, 
the whole party took carriages and drove to the Grand Central depot to await the coming 
of the guests who were to arrive at 11:00 o'clock from 'Washington City, via the B. & O. 
railroad. As the train rolled into the depot the committee, together 'with many south- 
erners who had arrived in the city on the previous day, walked down to the special car 
which had brought the distinguished visitors from Washington. Gen, Wade Hampton, 
that stately southerner, with heavy gray mustache and side whiskers, was the first to be 
welcomed; then came a round of introductions, and Gen. Underwood being the only man 
who knew and remembered the names of everybody, acted as master of ceremonies. 
The party felt tired after the long and hot journey and therefore w^as soon escorted to 
carriages and driven to the Palmer House. 

Flags covered the rotunda of the hotel and other memorials reminded the southerners 
that Dixie's land had not been forgotten in Chicago; and in addition, the pillars were 
draped in black and white for Secretary Gresham. Above one of the arches was a large 
portrait of the secretary of state draped with crape and the Stars and Stripes. 

When the Confederate generals arrived at the hotel they found many of the com- 
rades from Atlanta, Ga. , had taken possession and the battle-scarred veterans were soon 
among their southern friends One notable figure in the crowd of southerners was 
Chaplain T. L Smith of Virginia, who is now a pastor in Denver and is in appearance 
a patriarch of all the patriarchs He wore long flowing white hair and heavy white 
beard, and carried with him his commission as chaplain and major in the Twenty- 
second Virginia regiment, and was proud of the distinction that his was the first chap- 
lain's commission issued by the Confederate States 

A touching meeting took place between Lieut-Gen. Stephen D. Lee and Gen. Wade 
Hampton. These two comrades embraced, and Gen. Hampton putting his hands on 
Gen. Lee's shoulders, said, laughingly: "Don't you remember how you used to wish 
you could reach the rank of colonel and command a battalion of artillery? That was 
when you were a captain, but you climbed up far beyond a colonelcy." 

In the afternoon the party went to the theaters and clubs, the keys of the city 
opening to it every class of entertainment 



2 I 



ROSTER OF GUESTS. 



FROM GEORGIA 

Lieut. -Gen. James Longstreet. daugh- 
ter, Marie Louise, and Mrs. C. C. 
Sanders and daughter. Marie Armon- 
tine. Gainesville 

Judge W, L. Calhoun, Col. A. J West, 
Maj. J. M. Couper and Mrs R L 
Walker, .Atlanta. 

Maj. J. L. McCoUum and daughters, 
Blanch and Laura, Marietta 

FROM SOUTH CAROLINA 

Lieut. -Gen. Wade Hampton and 

secretary, Mr. Chas. E. Thomiis; 

public officials, Washington, D. C. 
Maj. -Gen. M. C. Butler, Edgefield; 

Col. J. B. Erwin, public official, 

Washington, D. C. 

FROM MISSISSIPPI: 

Lieut-Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Agricul- 
tural College. 

FROM VIRGINIA; 

Maj -Gen, Fitzhugh Lee, Glasglow; 
Brig. -Gen. Eppa Hunton. Warren- 
ton. 
Solicitor - General Holmes Conrad, 
public official, and wife, Washington, 
D. C. 

FROM W.-^SHINGTON CITY 

Maj. -Gen. Henry Heth and daughter, 

Nannie. 
Maj. -Gen. L. L, Lomax, wife, and Miss 

Isabelle Armstrong 
Brig-Gen. Marcus J. Wright, wife, and 
Miss Eliza Washington, of Charles- 
ton, W. Va. 




Col Albert Akersand wifi': M,ij R W 

Hunter 
Capt- H B Littlepago and wife, ("apt. 

J W. Drew and wife. 
Maj F. V. Robinson, Misses Margret 

Cox, Virginia L and Laura L 

Mitchell. 

FROM FLORIDA 

Maj -Gen S Ci. French, Winter Park. 

FROM MARYLAND 

Maj -Gen. H Kyd Douglas. Hagt-rs- 
town; Col W F Beasley. Baltimore. 

FROM KENTUCKY. 

Brig-Gen Fayette Hewitt, and Majs. 

H. T Stanton and L. C. Norman, 

Frankfort. 
Col. T. W. Campbell. Louisville: Rev. 

Jos.Desha Pickett ( River Forest.Ill.) 

FROM NORTH CAROLINA; 

Col. Wharton J. Green, F'ayetteville. 

FROM LOUISIANA 

Col. W. R Lyman, wife and Misses 

,\manda C. and Mary Childress, 

New Orleans 
Commodore J. E Montgomery and 

granddaughter. New Orleans. 

FROM TEXAS; 

Mr I L Currie and wife. Dallas 

FROM TENNESSEE; 

Col. S A- Cunningham, Nashville. 

FROM COLORADO; 

Rev. J. L Smith, Denv;^r. 



INVITATION TO THE R INCEPTION AT THE 
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RhXEPTlON AT THI- PALMER 

I Condensed extracts ffoni the Cit\ Press of ("hira 



Tlie parlors of the I'altner House were filled li tweeii 5:00 and 7 oo o'elock last even- 
ing; with a merry, jostling company, with many charact-ristics unusual in social j^ather- 
in>;s One-armed men w>re so niinierons as to attract attention r.ion/e buttons ol 
strangs design were worn in the lapels of dr. ss coats Tiny examples of the Am ncan 
flag \v-=re displayed on the corsag s of b autiful women with evident pride, and on the 
bosom of a fair one here and th r was |iinned a badge of the stars and bars side 1)\ side 
with the stars and striprs Men uith h lir and brards silvered liy time wcrr- conspicu- 
ous In' th-ir number and their - rect carriage Strange for a social affair. se\eral 
ambled about cjii crutches or canes .\nd in th buzz of conversation which tilled th- 
rooms and trailed out intii the spacious corridor there was one note which caught the 
Chicago c-ar and held it a willing jirisfiner It \\as the unaccustom d soutluan ace nt 
with broadened ".a" and slurr.-d '-r," softening our mother English into tlie langnomus 
charm of the south The committee in charge of the arrangements for the dedication of 
the monument to the Confederate dead at Oakwoods had not forgotten the social 
amenities, and the gathering at the Palmer House wis a reception to the visitors from 
the south. 

Gen I'nderwood hid prepared .a musical treat for the guests through the \ocal 
talent of the popular and gifted Imj'Kri,\i,-.\kion Octet, which rendered the lollowing 
selections with admirable execution and harmon\': 



PFiOC.KAM. 

I. THE FOREST !/««;,>."'" 

IMI'liRI.M. yl'ARTET. 

2 DUET— The Fishers Cihiiai 

.\RIEL NICHOLS .\NI1 ,\1)ELE HI1LM\N 

3 .WGEL I^.AND y. F. Hud 

IMrERI.-\[.-AR10N OCTET 

4 B.\KIToXE SOLO My .\xe of Steel H<n;-iis 

CH.'\S \ ORKW 

5. CUCKOO /•>/.';,;. 

.^RION Ot:,\RTET 

6. JEXKS COMPorXH M,uv 

IMl'EKl.AL or.\RTET 

7. D.'^YBRE.AK Pairc: 

\RION iJU.ARTEr 

5 SOlTHEIcN MELOniKS 

TMrERl.\l.--\RION OCTET. 

y GOOD NIGHT I'niiiil/i 

IMI'KRl .\I.- \U1I5N OCTET 

Beyond the singing ther was nothing prearrang.ed The familiar plant.ition nielodit s 
moved southern and northern hantls alike to applause; and the gallant warriors from the 
south maintained their chivalrous reputation by paying compliments to the prettv 
young women present. Many Chicagoans called to pay their respects to the visitors 

1^31 




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May 29-31, 1895 



See Fac;f. 27. 




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and to make the aci]iiainlance of tlie men wlio ha\c- won distinction in le^MsIati\e halls as 
well as on the tield of battle, but the feature of the aflair, .ifter rdl, was the reunion of 
comrades after a long separation. Not only were southerners from witlel\* sej>arated 
sections brought together, but Chicago counts among her good citizens hundreds who 
wore the gray, and to these the opportunity of meeting their old commanders was an 
occasion to open the springs of the heart for a flood of love, admiration and fraternal 
good will. 

The meeting of "Yank" and •'Johnny Reb " was also a feature of the occasion. It 
was always accompanied by the warmest of cordiality, and the old epithets that once 
stirred their blood to the fighting pitch were bandied with rollicking, mocking good 
nature. And it needed only the fair daughters of the south, a handful in number but 
lovely in their evening gowns, full of feminine graciousness and with an engaging 
vivacity set off bv the charming southern accent, to add the last touch to this memoraljle 
gathering. 

Gen. Longstreet was the center of universal interest. Feeble with seventy years and 
more, he sat in the middle of one of the parlors, the point of general attraction. The 
general was compelled to use an ear trumpet, but t^eamed witli interest when incidents 
of the war were recalled. About him were grouped several southern women, as though 
a bodyguard, and near by stood his pretty daughter receiving compliments for her 
father's valor and paying filial tribute by wearing the stars and bars on her bosom by the 
side of the red, white and blue. E.v-Sheriff O. L. Mann of this city, furnished a char- 
acteristic incident. Stumping in on crutches, he reminded Gen. Longstreet that when a 
member of the Thirty-ninth Illinois regiment in the Shenandoah valley he tried to pay 
his compliments, tiut had been prevented and now called to make up for lost time. 

Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Mississippi, was another distinguished guest, and his ener- 
getic expression, fine personnel and military carriage caused him to be much sought after 
by his comrades and the citizens of Chicago. 

Gen. Wade Hampton, son and grandson of warriors, the typical soldier, the dashing 
cavalryman, the governor of South Carolina, United States senator, and now the govern- 
ment railroad commissioner, was surrounded l)y an admiring throng. Capt. Littlepage 
was compelled to tell again and again the story of the fight lietween the Monitor and tlie 
Merrimac, for he was on the rebel gunboat during its entire career. Gen. Wright had 
a special interest for many because he furnished much of the Confederate data which 
Gen. Grant used in his magazine articles and memoirs. George Forrester, formerly of 
Kentucky, and John W. White, formerly of Virginia, both now of Chicago, held groups 
of veterans in suspense as they tried to outdo each other with stories of the raids of Gen. 
Morgan and Col Mosby. Col. Campl>eU, a neighljor of Gen. Underwood before the 
war, touched on the sharp contrasts of the war b}' telling how he had charge of his 
friend when taken prisoner. 

Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the distinguished cavalry officer and ex-governor of Virginia, 
was another of the popular guests, and though he arrived late, he was made quite a lion 
by both the ladies and gentlemen who vied with each other to greet him 

Col. Charles J. Murphy of New York, was a picturesque figure with his massive hend 
crowned in white and bearing medals pro\ing honorable service in the Mexican war as 
well as in that of the rebellion. 

The reception committee was: Ferdinand W. Peck, William I) Kerfoot, George B. 
Shaw, Rev. Samuel Fallows, Alexander H Revell, Malcom McNeill. Robert A Waller, 
Harry G. Selfridge, Henry L. Turner, Robert L, Henry, Metellus L C. Funkhouser 
and John C. Underwoood 




LADY ASSISTAXTS- 



No I 

No, 2 

No 3 

No. 4, 

No. 5 

No. 6. 
No 
No. 



MISS \IR(',INIA L. MtTCHELL, Charleston. W. Va. 

MISS M.ARIE LOl'ISE I.ONGSTREET, G.iinesville, (".a. 

MISS M^KIE ARMO.NTINE SANDERS. Gainesville, Ga. 
MISS AMANDA C. CHILDRESS. New Orleans, La. 

MISS MARGARET COX. Washineton. D C. 

MISS NANNIE HETH. VVashinelon. D. C. 

MRS MARCUS J. WRIGHT. Washington, D. C. 

MISS FANNIE M. SCOTT, Van Buren, Ark. 



See Followini; Pag^ 




TliL- first of ilie r.rrptinn rommiiti'e to .•irii\e were Ferdinainl W Trek ami Miss 
t'eck, Malcoin McNeill ami the Misses McNeill These yoiiiii; ladies were in the inter- 
esting groups through the afternoon Among the hrst arrivals were Col ami Mrs Allien 
Akers of Washington. Mrs. Akers descend il from a distinguished revolutionary family, 
is the cousin of Maj -Gen. Tickett. of Gettysburg fame, a queenly and charming woman, 
and had a court of admirers about her from the lirst. Early in the afternoon Solicitor- 
General and Mrs. Holmes Conrad of Winchester. Miss Polly Gary Kandolph and Col. 
Isham Kandolph of Chicago, were together. Gen and Mrs Marcus J Wright of Wash- 
ington, were among the first comers. With them was a distinguished and elegant 
woman, Miss t^liza Seldon W.ishiuL^tou. daughter of Col |ohn .Vugustim- Washington, 
the last private owner of Mount N'ernon Miss W.ishington was born in that historic 
mansion. She was the recipient of marked attention Miss f^elle .\rmstrong. the hand- 
some and winsome daughter of (leu I'rank Armstrong and grandniece of President 
James K. Folk, was (iresent ami the center of a circle Gen H K\d I >ouglas of llag- 
erstown. Md.. was a marked Hgure. gray clad, and the target of all eyes on account of 
his striking personality. He is one of the Bayard type, of great inches, slight, with a 
smooth cameo-cut face, gray hair, full blue eyes and great mobility of expression com- 
plete the ensemble. Gen. Douglas tells an iniinitable story, and has manners simple 
and easy, .\mong others present were >rr. and Mrs, F. H. Cooper of Chicago, the 
brilliant and attractive Miss Margart t Co\ of Washington City, the be.iutifnl Misses 
Virginia and I,anra Mitchell of Charleston. W. Va . who are descendants of (k-n 
George Washington's only sister Ki'tty . and. through their mother, connected with 
Martha Washington, Mr and Mrs K L Henry of Chicago, both of whom wrr.i exceed- 
ingly attentive to the guests, especially Mrs Henry, who in h?r attractive and agreeable 
way assisted in introducing and making everyone feel perfectly at ease and happy, Mr 
and Mrs. Alexander H. f<evell and Miss .\lic- Kevell of Chicago; Gen. Harry Heth and 
daughter. Miss Nannie Heth of Washington Cit\ Another cavalry general was M. C 
Butl5r. late United States senator from South (".nolina, a superb looking man and distin- 
guished for his chivalry and gallantry, and. although he lost a leg in the battle of Brandy 
Station, appeared asa veritable Adonis. Aiming the oth'i-rspr ?sent w rre Maj.-CIen. I.. I., 
I^omax and wife, of Washington. 1) C ; Brig -Gen .Alfred Orendorff. adjutant-gener.d of 
Illinois; Gen S G. I'rench of h'lorida, th;- hero of Kenn saw mountain; M.ij H.'nr\ T, 
Stanton, the poet laureat,:- of K, ntucky; C;en. Eppa Hunton. I'nited Stat s senator from 
Virginia; Maj. Robert W. Hunter of Virginia. Gen. Gordon's adjutant-general during the 
last fight at .Appomattox; Mr. and Mrs. K A Wallr of Chicago. Mr and Mrs W H. 
Crocker of Chicago, W. A. .\lexander of Chicago; C;ipt J W Drew ami wif.- of Wash- 
ington City. Col. W. R flyman and wife, and thosL lovely daughters of the Gull, Misses 
Amanda C and >fary Childress of New Orleans. Col layman is a distinguish, d southerner 
and one of the most prominent businessmen of the Cresci-nt City, and Miss Am.mda 
Childress has enthusiastically devoted much of her tim - in assisting to perfect th 'organ- 
izations of the I.'nited Confederate Veterans; Mr and Mrs Jas H Harris, of Chicago 
and Maj. Frank V. Robinson of Washington City <.)ver in .1 corner stood a 
man of militarv bearing, who, thirty years ago, when he w.is a mere bov, helped 
to keep guard over th,' Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas — the men who m t 
} P. EUacott at the reception made as much of a fuss about it as though 
h - were an old and dear friend, instead of a one-time jailer. He was glad to sec th m 
all too, and immediately became in\olved in a long argument as to the fla\s of th ' 
Cjold.''n Circle conspiracy and the exact location of certain tunn Is ami stockad, s in 
the old Camp Douglas prison. 



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Back of the chair of the xenerable Gen. Longstreet, who was surrounded b)' friends 
and admirers waiting for a word or presentation, were; Miss Louise Longstreet, his 
daughter, and Miss Armontine Sanders. These young ladies were remarked for viva- 
cious beauty and high-bred courtesy. In the same interesting party were Miss Lucy Lee 
Hill of Chicago, whose father was Lieut-Gen. A. P. Hill of Virginia and mother, a 
sister of Gen. John H. Morgan of Kentucky; Mrs. Katie Cabell Currie, the beautiful 
and accomplished daughter of Gen Cabell of Dallas, Texas, and Mrs. Sanders of 
Gainesville, Ga, 

Col Henry L. Turner did the honors on behalf of the military arm of the city, and 
brought his handsome wife along to help. 

Gen. John C. Underwood, the originator of the plan for a memorial to the Confederate 
dead at Oakwoods and of the peace festival attendant upon its dedication, came late and 
the cordial greetings and ripple of applause that welcomed him indicated his place in 
the affections of both northern and southern people. The general was tired and wor- 
ried with the burden of the two days' program which he has charge of, but he found 
time to say pleasant things to everybody and give the final touch of cordiality to the 
affair. 

Gen. Joseph Stockton received the veterans from the south with all the courtesy 
that comes of a knowledge of man's fighting qualities; and Washington Hesing was there 
because the government had taken official cognizance of the reunion and because he 
personally believes the spirit which prompted the festival is a good and beautiful one. 

Bishop Fallows, who has been a soldier, and, despite his cloth, knows a lot about 
society, said the reception was a historic event and the most splendid society function 
since the ante-bellum days Rev. Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, who loves to see people kiss 
and make up, stated it was simply glorious to see old enemies meeting together in sweet 
amity like brethren and sisters. 

.\ unique feature and contrast was furnished by Harrison Terrell, a colored man with 
a history. Born a slave, he followed the fortunes of his master through the war and 
served Gen. Lee's staff as cook and valet until the surrender at Appomattox He 
became an employe of Gen. Grant while president, and the great commander sent for 
him to come to McGregor to help smooth his dying hours. 

These are characteristic examples of the men, the reminiscences and contrasts 
brought to notice on every hand at the reception, filling hearts with tenderness and often 
eyes with tears. And against this background of military shoulders, of noble heads, of 
tales of daring and suffering were outlined the grace and high-bred beauty of the Amer- 
ican woman, the northerner and the southerner, exchanging sisterly affection in imitation 
of the examples set by father and brother. 

Some of the women — and there were about one hundred of them -were remarkably 
beautiful, and probably no more aristocratic gathering has ever come together in the 
parlors of Mr, Palmer's hotel. 

The citizens commenced taking leave of the honored visitors at 7:00 o'clock and in 
a half hour all had left, that the male guests might have an opportunity to prepare for 
the banquet shortly to follow. 

About 8;oo p. m., members of the committee arrived with carriages and the distin- 
guished personages were whirled away to the banquet halls at Kinsley's. 




OCCASION OF THE DEDICATION O I' THE 
CON !• E D E R AT K MO N U M E N T 



r H I C A G O , I L [, 



BANQUET TO D 1 S T I N G U 1 S 11 li D U NM O x\ AND 
C O N F E D E I? A T E ( ) F I' I C E R S 



IIN'IIKK THK AllSPrCES OF 



THE CITIZENS' COMMITTEE. 



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FROM 8 TO 12 O'CLOCK P M. 



MENU 

LITTLK NECK CLAMS. 

UADISHES. CRESS. OLIVES, 

Cocktail Southern. 
CONSOMME MACEDOINE. 

TOASTED WAFERS. Amontillado. 

PLANKED VVHITEFISH. 

CUCUMBERS. POTATOES PAklSIENNE. 

Haut Sauternes, 1874. 

TENDERLOIN Ol- BEEF A LA CHATELAINE. 

NEW POTATOES. STUFFED TOMATOES. 

Pontet Canet. 1881. 
PUNCH MILITAIRE. 

BROILED SNIPE ON TOAST. NEW ASPARAGUS VINAIGRETTE. 

Sparkling Moselle. 

TRUFFLED PATF' ON Ll-AF OF LETTUCE. 

Moet and Chandon White Seal. 
GLACE, WITH FRESH STRAWBERRIES. 

WHITE, MOSAIC AND BLACK CAKE, 

CHEESE. CRACKIiRS. COFFEE. 

COGNAC. CIGARS. 



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Al-TER DlXNliR EX K R C I SKS. 

Fekdinand \V I'K' k, I'r sill nt Citizins' ( "nmniitt ■_■, Chairman 

Sentiments an^ 1Re5pon^er3 

ADDRESS OF Wlil.CoMI-. Th i "l,,,ii ni.m 

RESPONSE, C.fii ImiN B Gordon, Cniiiiii.iinlini; 

United Conicd -rat ■ V-trans 




Col 



IIknhs L. Turner, Ti>astmasl;r. 



Taps for the Old Days, 
Ktveille for tlie New, 



A'r the Toia^liiutsti-. 



Lieut -Gen. John M S' hofiki.d 
Lietit -Gen. J,\mes LoNiisTRiiKi 
Maj -G&n, John M P,^lmkr 
. Maj.-Gen. M. C Hiii.kr 
Gen John (' Blaj k 
. Maj -Gen Frrzm ',h I.kk 
JuiIk R S 'riTHii.i 

Lieut -(i II \V,\I)K II,\M!')uN 

. Rev, H W TiioM,\s, I ) I I 
Lieut. -Gen Sikrhhn D Lee 



Uoasts 

I THF .\RMV OF THE LXFrED ST.XTES, , 

2. THE ARMV OF NORTHERN VIRtllNLA, . 

3 THE RErNrrEH NATION 

4 THE A>n-:KICAN SOLliIl-:K IN HISTORY, 

5 ■HEKES THE HAN1> oF FKLLOWSHIP 

6 -SHALL NOT THF SoFTH tJRASP IT'' 
7, THE BEAUTY OF FOKGFTFULNESS, 
S, SOUTHERN CHIVALRY I'KOM 1771, TO 1,81.5 
g THE CHRISTIAN SIDE OF THE SOLDIER, 

10 THE PROSPEROUS SOUTHLAND, , . , 

11 THF NATIONAL GUAI^D th Nations New Soldiery, 

Adjt -Gen Ai.freii t)i;HNiioRKE 
12, SOUTHERN INFANTRY Maj.-G;n V. C \V.\i, 1 h.ali. 

13 THE CROWN OF HEROISM, , , , . . H,.n Lotiier L.\h.in Mii.i.s 

14 THE DEAD HEROES OF AMEKICV, ,\ N.oional M.mununt. 

Rev, A J Canfiei.i., D I ' 

15. THE UNITED STATES VOU'NTFFR Gn Joseph Sro. kt. n 

10 THF MOTHER OI" I'RFSIUENTS TO THE HISTORIC NORTHWEST 

S.n.itcir |oHN W Daniei 
17. THE EXCERCISE OF OFI'ICIAI. INFLUENCE AND I'OWER, 

Solicitnr-Gen Holmes CnNK,\!) 
iS THE -INDIVIDUAL oF THF .\MI-:RIC,\N SOLDIER, 

Maj, -Gen, H, Kvn D .i.\s 

E.\t-inporan.--ous rfniinisc nt sji -cli s by (lens. Al.rX. P. Stewart, Hair\ II ih 
S C;. French, L. L, Lomax, Marrus J Wright, Eppa Hunton, Win II I',ivn., 
Frank C, Armstrong, and otli rs 



GOOD NIGHT AND BENEDICTION, 



Re\- Jenkin Llio I) [ones 



.ALL speeches \\<\: I.I.MITEI) l() FIVE MINI'TES EA(H. 

(Tlie Program could not be exactly carried out owinti to the unavoidable absence 
of siiiiie of the speakers.) 

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lUOGRAPHIC: 

Ferdinand W. Peck was born in Chicaeo, III., in 1S48; graduated at Chicago's High School. Old University and Union College of 

Law; admitted to ilie bar coincidenily witli tlie attainnient of Ills tweiUy-first year. 
Prominently connected with enterprises which liave contributed to the renown of Chicago. 
From the earliest agitation of the Columbian celebration he was its indefatigable champion. 
Positions filled;— 

F'irst vice-president, member board of control, and chairman committee on finance World's Columbian exposition. 
President of the Chicago Athenaeum; president of the Auditoritini Association; president of the Chicago Opera Festival 
Association; trustee of the New Chicago L^niversity; vice.pre<:ident of the Illinois Humane Society; president 
of the Union League Club; member and vice-president of the hoard of education. 
Probably his most successful work was the conception and erection of the niagnihceiit Auditorium building. 




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FI':ivl>lXA.\l) W. I'ECK, Esg. 

I'Tfsidriit of Cliicago Citizens' Committee 

After the hanqiut, at i):3" )'■ m . Presiilent Ferdinand W. Peck called 
the assenilih- to nrder. and spoke as tcillows: 

Mr. Peck: ■• Griitlnucii — hi lielialf of the citizens of Clucai^o it is 
m\' dut3' and threat pleasure to extend a most cordial \\i leome to our dis- 
tinguished guests from all sections of cm- cornuion countr\. who honor 
lis tiy tlieir presence. There ha\ e l)een lew grander or more signiticant 
events in our American histor\- than this coming together of the great sol- 
dierdeaders who. wdth their comrades, more than thirt\' years ago. fought 
gallantly face to face, as well as side bv side, for a cause which <.ach of 
them lielieved to be just, and for the defense of which each felt that 
duty demanded action. (.\pplause.) It is indeed fitting, and our 
citizens of Chicago are protid of the fact, that this greatest and most 
representative of American cities shoidd be tlie chosen ground for this 
sublime occasion, and we express a Nation's sentiment when we grasp 
the hands of our lirotliers from every section of our splendid repnlilic 
and forever obliterate all differences as we stand umler the folds of Old 
Glory (applause and cheers), which is and shall be forever hereafter onr 
one common lianner. (Applause.) Outside of sentiment and patriot- 
ism, gentlemen, there will come from this assembly and the fraternal feel- 
ing thereby established, closer commercial relations and btisiness union 
between the citizens of our countr\ , thus enlisting in a larger tlegree 
the investment of the capital of this section in developing the vast 
resources of the southern states. (Applause.) To accomplish this 
there must be strong fellowship and mutual confidence existing between the 
people of what was once known as the Confederacy and the section con- 
taining the great cities of the north. There should be closer union 
between all sections of onr country, for there is great and i^rand and 
glorious work for all true lo\^al men and women to do, and they should 
stand united to promote our national welfare, that the republic may 
always endure. (.\pplause.) I do not believe that the Columbian 
exposition of 1S93 was a more momentous e\eiit in its future iniliK-nce 
upon both our city of Chicago and upon our Nation than is this second 
reunion of the great representatives of onr civil war, more than a 
quarter of a century .after the object lesson taught b\ ("iraiit ,tiul Lee at 
.•\ppomattox and thi- jirecepts left to us by the immortal Lincoln of 
cliaritv toward all and malice toward none. (Applause.) 




LlKliT-GEN. STEPHEN D. LICE. 

DLKISG TlIK SIXTIES. 





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BIOGRAPHIC: 

Stephen Dill I-ee was born at Charleston. S. C, September 22. 1833; graduated at United States Military Acaden;v, Jiintf, 1S54. 
Commissioned in I'nited States army: — 

Second lieutenant. Fourth artillery, June, 1854. and first lieutenant and reslmental ijuartermaRter, October. 1^=4. 
Commissioned in Confederate States army:—- 

Captain March. iSfu; major November. 1.S61; lieutenant-colonel May. 1S62: colonel July. 1S62. 

Urifiadier-general P, A C. S.. November 6. 1862; major-gimeral P. A. C. b.. August 3, 1863. 

Lieutenant-general P. A. C. S.. June 23. 1K64: State senaior of Mississippi. 1S7S. 

President of Mississippi A giicultural and Mechanical Col lege. I^^o Member of state constitutional convt tition. iHyo, 



'•Again, friends lidui tlu- SDUtli an 1 from the north, the people of tliis 
imperial eit\ warmly welcome \o\i ami ,L;n'et \'OU as lirothi'rs in a nniteil 
Nation, that fore\ermore shall know no sectionalism and no disc()r(L 
I Applause, i 

"I am requested to say that Gen. |olin l>. (Gordon of ('jeor,i;ia, is 
unexpectedly detained by the illness oi his wife. He has warmh' 
commended this gathering;, and e.xpressed his earnest desire to he 
present, by his telegrams and by his letters. 

"Among many distinguished gentlemen who surround us to night and 
honor us h\ their presence, there is one whose name is national, whose 
record is great in war and is great in peace. 1 have the honor, gentlemen, 
to present to yon Lieut. -Cien. Stephen D. Lee of Mississippi " 




LlLi; 1. (_.1';N. STLl'HEX D. LKE, 

of Mississippi. 

The general was greeted with great applause and cheers, and spoke as 
follows; 

Gen. Lee: " A/r. President and Fe/li'W Citizens of C/ii(ai;o —On 
account of tlie absence of Gen. Gordon, I have the unexpected pleasure 
of expressing, on behalf of those who ha\e accepted your hospitality, 
our warm appreciation of these courtesies. A year ago you gave a royal 
welcome to the world in this t3'pical American city, and on this occasion 
sliow that \ on lia\e the same welcome for your most distant American 
brethren, who come here with the love of this republic in their hearts 
and a message of peace upon their lips. (.\pplause. ) To-night we feel 
that Chicago hospitality knows no sectional line. This great cit\', des- 
tined to be the heart of the Nation, makes no American a stranger 
(applause), and we of the south feel that we share your broad and 
catholic welcome. If we reail the significance of this occasion aright, 
this welcome is worthy to be made historic. \i\ this city that makes 
presidents another great thing has come to pass. A thousanil miles have 
come the x'eterans of the greatest civil war that the world has ever seen. 
The defeated have come into the land of the victor, even into the ranks 
ot their bravest foes, bringing with them flowers to lay on the graves of 
the great dead, and to set up a monument, not to those who fell in the 
red onslaught of liattle, but to those who in jirison walls sealeti their 
sincerity with their lives. To these pilgrims Chicago is saying, not that 
we approve of the principles for which these men fought, not that we 
concede one jot or tittle of the convictions which caused us to send our 
own brave men to the battle front, but that we do not deem it dishon- 



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oralile to honor the unfortunate bravf. (Great applause and clit-ers. i 
That \ciu make no war upon the dead, but rather with xou, wc wouh 
honor whatever was faithfuL courageous and heroic in thi-se American 
soldiers. (Applause.) It is not strange that the hatreds of civil strife 
have not been eliminated from so many hearts, but it is strange that so 
much lo\ e and reconciliation lias spread over our broad Nation. And in 
conclusion, mv friends. 1 desire to say in behalf of ^'our visitors, that we 
accept vour friendship with the same gentrous spirit with which _\ou 
offer it; that we invite \ou again to invatie us, not with your bayonets 
this time, but with vour business. (Applause.) We want to hear in 
our land the voices of your industries; we wish you to push the columns 
of \our goods into our utmost stronghold, and when \<>u come, we will 
give you as heartv, if not as royal, a welcome." (Great applause.) 

President Peck: "I know that our distinguished guests, also our own 
citizens of Chicago, would be glad to hear a word from their inaj'or. the 
Hon. George B. Swift." 



IIO.N. GEORGE B. SWIFT, 

Mayor of (^hicaj^o. 

Mr. Swift: '■•Mr. Pitshi,nl and Gi'i/hiiiiii It is hardly fair to depart 
from or interfere with the carefull}' prepared program and yet the true 
Chicagoan never falters when called to the front. And to-night I realize 
fulh' why I have been asked to say a word to you, or rather to our 
guests, and it arises from the fact that I am the chief magistrate of the 
greatest city in America, and in that capacity, as the mayor of this won- 
derful city, I bid you guests a royal Chicago welcome. Chicago is eipial 
to every occasion. Witness the warmth of the weather — unparalleled 
the papers state (the papers always state the truth), unparalleled in the 
history of Chicago, the warmest May weather ever known in our city. 
That is an indication of the individual and collective warmth of heart ot 
the Chicago citizens toward their honored guests. Now, my fellow 
citizens, we welcome you, we thrice welcome you in our midst. We 
bespeak for you a happy sojourn, we hope for you a safe return to your 
homes, we also hope that there may abide in your hearts and your minds 
the kindliest recollection of Chicago and her people. Again I bid 
you welcome." (Applause.) 

I'residi'nt Peck: "A gentleman who will speak to you later in the 
evening, and who is upon the program, desires at this time to oHer a 
resolution. I therefore introduce to you for that purpose - Gen. Wade 
Hampton. ' 

Upon rising. Gen. Hampton was greeted with applause and cheers. 




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COL. HENRY L. TURNER 

OAKWOODS CEMETERY. MAY 30, I^'JS 




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hist lieutenant and adjutant Eit'tli regiment, 



May 29 31, 1895. 

BIOGRAPHIC: ' , ,- r- .. 

Henry Lathrop Turner was liorn in Oberlin. Ohio, August 26, 1845; graduated at Oheiiin CoMege.^ 
Eirst lieutenant One Hundred and Fifteenth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry; ' " ' "' 

United States colored troops. 
Moved to Chicago after tlie war and engaged in journalistic, real estate and banking pursuits. 
An enthusiastic national guardsman, has been and is an untiring worker for the I. N. G. , v u 

Major First regiment infantry. I. N. G.. April, 1HS7; lieutenant-colonel. April, 18S9; colonel. November i'>- ''^OS— . 

Colonel Turner displayed military ability and obtained great credit for the manner in whicli he protected Fulhnan against the 

strikers in iNyi and otherwise assisted in quelling the riots: he is respected and loved by his command; is popular with 

all who know him and is a ready speaker and fluent writer. 




G EX. WADE H A M P TON, 

of Scuith CaroliiKi 

Gen. Hampton: --Mr. Chainiidii aiul my l-'i-ll,izo C//r^r/is — 1 have 
a right to call you my fellow citizens now. 1 have been honored with 
the request to offer a resolution that 1 am sure will meet a response in 
the hearts, not only of every citizen of CMiicago and this grand state, 
but fvery citizen of the United States.'' ( Reads): 

AVi()/zr(/, That this assembly of Uniun and Coiifederatp officers and citizens of 
Chicago hereby express tlieir profound sorrow at the death of the late Secretary of 
State, Walter (,). Ciresham. His distinguished service on the battlefield, upon the bench 
and in the President's cabinet, are recognized throughout the length and breadth of the 
country. The Nation has lost one of its greatest heroes and stntcsnien, whose 
distinguished service for his country should never be forgotten in the future history of 
our common lanil. 

The resolution was adopted unanimously by a rising vote. 

President Peck: "My ne.xt pleasure, gentlemen, is to name your 
toastmaster. He needs no introduction to a Chicago assembly, and he 
has already become acquainted with the distinguished guests from 
elsewhere. I therefore present to you Col. Henry L. Turner." 



COL. HENRY L. TI'KNER. 

I'irst Kegiment Infantry, I N ( ', 

Col. Turner: ''Mr. President, Gentlemen and Gnests — Our chairman, 
representing the business men and the people of Chicago, has most 
eloquently bidden our guests welcome. Our honored mayor has officially 
welcomed you and given you the freedom of our city. It is fitting, 
however, inasmuch as our guests are soldiers, that a word of welcome 
from another source be added. To-morrow 1 shall wear the insignia of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, of the military order of the Loyal 
Legion. As an old soldier, then, 1 cordially, heartily welcome mv old 
comrades of the Union army, and 1 thank the Lord m\ heart is big 
enough to send my voice ringing across the estrangement of thirty 
years and say, welcome and God bless you, my soutliern friends. 
(Great applause. ) 

"There is one other representation for which I wish to speak. 
To-morrow 1 shall march at the head of one of the really great National 
Guard regiments, and one of the Nation's new soldier\-, which loves and 



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honors valor \vhere\'er founil. I bid \'ou welcome. My sentiment is, 
'Taps to the old days, reveille to the new.' I have dedicated this to the 
e.x-oflicers and soldiers of the Confederate arm\- who visit lis: 

'Twas many years ago, boys, 

When first we marched away, 
We wore the bhie, you know, boys. 

Whilst you'iins wore the .yray 

Then life was fresh and new, boys, 

And so it is to-day. 
Only in courtesy to you, boys. 

We wear our lieards in gray 

(Laughter. ) 
'Twas stars and bivouac all night, boys. 

'Twas tramp, tramp, tramp all day. 
'Twas thunderin,t;. crashing fight, boys. 

Between the blue and gray. 

Lord, how your bullets flew. boys. 

And yet I'm free to say, 
We sent as good to you, boys — 

Blue paid its delfts to gray 

Oh. radiant days of strife, bovs. 

When every hour and day 
Some hero gave his life, boys, 

I'^or either blue or gray- 
War's epic grandly rolled, boys. 

Life soared to heights away. 
And glory's requiem tolled, bo) s, 

For both the lilne and gray 

But battle Ifags are furled, boys 

All anger's worn away; 
We'll face a hostile world, boys. 

Blue side bv side with gray. 

( Cheers. 1 
Sound taps for those old days boys. 

And strew the flowers of May 
As God's own sunshine plays, boys. 

O'er both the blue and gray. 

.^nd for the days to come, linys, 

A ringing reveille. 
We'll make the Nation hum. boys. 

We'll bring the jubilee. 

(Applause. ) 



"Now, major, sound the taps and the reveille. (Mn^ 



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'■To you. speakers, ami tn \ou. ijuests, I wish to say that this is a 
military occasion, ami military rules will be enforced rigidly. So many 
have to be heard from, that each speaker will be held down to five 
minutes. This is nndi-r the instructions of the committee, which I will 
carry out literally. 

"These old generals who are present here, well know how dillicnlt it 
is to make a combined movement and to have ever\' jiart fit into the 
predestined whole. We had hoped to have with us to-night some 
speakers who are absent. The lieutenant-general of the army was to be 
with us, and he has sent w irm letters in appreciation of the movement, 
but he is detained awa\ b/ the death of the secretary' of state." 



This e.xtract is from a letter written to Cien. J. C. T'liderwood by 
LIEUT.-GEN. JOHN M. SCHOFIELD. 



t'onimandina Lniled States .\rm\ 



Patriotic people of all nations deligln to honor the memories of brave men who 
have fought and died tor a cause which they believed to be just. When the passion of 
war has subsided all just and generous men cease to discuss abstract (Questions of rij.;ht 
or wrong in respect to a contest which has been ended, and delight to share the spirit 
which actuates the true soldier at ,d] limes and which causes him to Iionor even his 
brave enem>' w-ho has fallen in b.illlr 

In this spirit patriotic and generous pef)ple of the great City of Chicago, LInion vet- 
erans of the Grand Armj of the Republic and young soldiers of the National Guard of 
Illinois have spontaneously given their assistance, support and sympath)- to the sur- 
vivors of the late Confederate army in the honor which they are pnying to the memory 
oi" their dead comrades 

But this great event h,is also a f.ir higher signification It is a token of the rejoicing 
which tills the hearts of all ^^ood ciiixens of this great republic, north, south, (.-ast antl 
west, that the wounds of war and strife h.i\ e been healed; that the causes of bitter dis- 
sension have been forever removed, that allegiance to the Stars an^l Stripes has become 
the one only standard of patriotism in the political faith, as we also trust and belie\e in 
the hearts of all throughout the length and breadth of this great land, and th.it we 
may now rest assured that our posterits will be a united people in this, our belo\ei.l 
country for all time to come 

The difference which divided the country in iSbi was of that character \ihiih < ,111 be 
decided only bv appeal to the god of battles The decision was rendered at Aiipmn.il lox, 
and no one has been so hardy as to c|iiisii(in the linality of that decision The Confed- 
erate soldiers then and there?ifter pledged tlieir honor ti) accept in good f.iith the honor- 
able and liberal terms oflered them b\ the great Union commander, to return to their 
allegiance and become loval and t.iithfiil citizens of the United States. The Union (om- 
mander and his comrades did not for ,1 moment doubt the honor of their lira\e .intago- 
nists But millions of ]o\al people m the countr\ trem])led with apprehension, le^^t that 




lilOdRAPHIC. 



May-June, 1S05. 



John McAllister Schotield was born iu Chautauqua county, N. Y., September 29, 1831. Graduated at United States Military 

Academy, in i^^^. 
Brevet second lieutenant, July i, 1S53: second lieutenant. First artillery, 1853-55: first lieutenant. August 31, 1855; captain, 

May 14, 1861: assistant professor of philosoptiy. United States Military Academy. 1855-60. 
Major First Missouri volunteers, April 2f\ 1H61. Brig. -sen. U. S. Vols. November 21. 1861. Ma j. -Gen. U.S. Vols., November 29. 

1.S62. With Gen. Sherman until after battle of Atlanta; afterward with Gen. Thomas, and fought the battle of Franklin. 

Tenn.. and for his services in that battle he was commissioned brigadier-general, U. S. A., wiili a brevet of major-general. 
Was sent to Murope on a special mission for state department. 1S65-66. 
Secretary of war, June, 186S, March, iSCnj, Major-general I'. S. army. March 12. iS^g. 
Superintendent United States Military Academy. West Point. N. Y., 1S76-81, 

Major-general commanding V. S. army. 1888: lieutenant-general commanding L". S. army, 1895; retired September 29. 1S05. 
He was assigned to and has tilled many other honorable positions. 




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pledge of good faith iiii^lit not be kept. Tlie doul)ts Miid anxieties of that day ha\c 
gradualh' and slowh been dispelled, until nnw. b)' almost nni\ersal accord throughout 
the land, the brave men of the south are regarded as among the most reliable defenders 
of the constitution of the United States and of the national honor and interests in an\ 
contest which ma)- hereafter arise Sectional political di\ isions are passing a\va\ , The 
people of the south, no less than those of the north, are dividing according to their hon- 
est opinions and practical interests upon the important questions of piddic policw The 
decision rendered at Appomattox has borne its fruit The sul)iiine aspirations of 
Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S- Gi'ant ha\e been realized b\ their countrymen through- 
out the land 

The battle flag of the Confederate arm\' now lies upon the gra\es r)f the ltra\e 
soldiers who defended it, while the glorious old flag of the Union floats on high, unchal- 
lenged by anv at home or abroad, throwing its protecting folds around all who now 
acknowledge true allegiance to the so\ereignt\- it represents 

The time has fully come when the veteran soldiers and the people of the country, 
north and sotith. mav rejoice together, 'with malice toward none, with charity for all,' 
and with "peace in e\'er\' heart." unite in honoring the inemor)' of the l^rave men w-hose 
blood was shed in the great contest to fully establish the "more perfect Union" designed 
by those who framed the constitution of the United States, and to make this Union 
perpetual- * * ^ * 

As a private citizen, and as a veteran soldier of the Union, I give you my cordial and 
hearty sympathy in the tribute of respect you are paying to the memory of your bra\e 
comrades 

Please give my cordial ami respectful greeting to all the old soldiers. Union and 
Confederate, who may meet for this purpose in Chicago 

Letters ■were also received from Mai.-(iL'n. Daniel E. Sickle.s, of 
New York: Brig. -Gen. D. W. Flager, chief of ordnance U. S. A.; 
Lieut. -Gen. A. P. Stewart, of Tennessee; Maj.-Gen. E. C. Walthall, of 
Mississippi; Brig. -Gen. Frank C. Armstrong, oi Washington; Brig. - 
Gen. W. L. Cabell (Litmt.-(ien. U. C. \'. ), of Texas; Brig. -Gen. 
Wm. H. Payne, of Virginia; Col. John B. Castleman. of Kentucky, 
and many others, fully endorsing the memorial movement and regret- 
ing their inability to attend. 

Col. Turner: "The first toast upon our program is the 'Army of 
Northern Virginia,' to be responded to by one of thf makers of histor\-. 
In old days he used to introduce hiinself to us in a most startling and 
unexpected manner. I take pleasure in introducing to you the right arm 
of the Army of Northern Virginia, a man who served from Bull Run to 
Appomattox — Gen. Longstreet." 













LIEUT-GEN. JAMES LONGSTREtT. 

DURING THE SIXTIES. 




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May 20 - June 2, 1S95. 



BIOGRAPHIC:— 

James Longslreet was born in South Carolina, January K, TS21, graduated at United Stales Military Academy, July. 1S42- 
Coniinissioned in United btates arniy:^ — 

lirevet second lieutenant. Kounh infantry, July i- 1^42; second lieutenant. Eifihth infantry. March 4, 1845; first lieutenant 
February 23, 1^47: reKinient,tl adjutant, June N. 1S47 to July i. 1^49: captain, December 7, 1S52; major-paymaster, 
July 19, 1858; brevetted captain, August 2n, 1S47. for gallant and meritorious service at Contreras and Churubusco. 
Mexico: brevetted major, September, 1S47, tor gallant and meritorious conduct at Molino del Rey, Mexico: resigned 
comuiission in tlie United States army, June i, 1861. 
Commissioned in Confederate States army: 

Lieu I en tan t-co Ion el. corps of infantry, C. S. A.. 10 rank frcm March 16, ii:>6i; brigadier- general. P. A. C. S., June 17, 1861; 
major-general, P. A C. S., October 7. 1S61; lieutenant general, P. A. C S.. October 9. 1862, and continued in com- 
mand of his corps, the right wing of Lee's army, until surrender at Appomattox. Resides at Gainesville, Ga. 




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LIEUT. -C.EN. JAMES LONGSTREET, 

Of Georgia. 

Gen. Longstreet: "Mr. C/miiiinui aihl Fr//inv Ci/izi'ns — I huard a 
good story once, and it is so old that it will be new to \ ou here, as it 
happened in 1S4S, just after the Mexican war. There is not much 
rhetoric in it, but a good deal of soldier. It was at a bancput. All of the 
armies of the Mexican war were represented, and among the rest was 
the army engaged in the battle of Sacramento. The only officer present 
from that army was Lieut. Wooster of the regular army, who com- 
manded the artiller}-. W'lien Sacramento was toasted, the lieutenant 
said: 

"You all seem to know that I was at the battle of Sacramento I cninmanded the 
battery there, and when the lines were spread and our ammunition about exhausted, 
Col. Dono\'an. who commanded, came and asked, ' Lieutenant, what shall we do 
next'' Well,' said the lieutenant, ' I tliink, colonel, we had lietter take a drink 
and charge them ' We took the drink, we did charge, the Mexicans ran and we ran 
after them. That is all that I know about the battle of Sacramento " 

'■ Well, 1 will say fur the .\rmy of Northern Virginia, you all seem to 
know I was there. I hatl that honor. I had the honor to be with the 
Army of Northern Virginia from the first battle at Bull Run, on the i8th 
of July, 1S61. until till.' close of its brilliant career. I was in the most 
of its general battles. But it will be mockery in me to attempt to 
describe the valor, endurance antl splendid career of that army. 
Through tliat armv I had the honor of an introduction to the Arm\' of 
the Potomac on the i.Sth of July, 1S61, ami that led to intimate acquaint- 
ance with another army, as gallant and brave and true as any army that 
was ever mustered. So we served together. (Laughter.) Until finally, 
after four years of severe and difficult struggle and valor, we found, on 
the gth of April. 1865, that a little man from the north, from this state, 
had spreatl his lines before us and spread his lines lieliintl us, and was so 
strong that we could not get through, so Gen. Lee concluded that it was 
as little as we could do. and it was the best that we could do, to say, it 
is enough." (Applause.) 




MAJ.-GEN. M. C. HUTLER. 

DURING THE SIXTIES. 




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May 29 -June i, 1S95. 



BIOGRAPHIC: 

Matthew Cdlbraithe Butler was born near Greenville. S. C . Marcli S, 1S36; educated at Edgetield Academy and Columbia Col- 
lege. South Carolina. 
Began tlie practice of law in December, 1857; elected to the state legislature in 1S60. 
Commissioned in Confederate States army: — 

Captain. Hampton's South Carolina Legion, June 12, iSfu; major. July 21, 1S61. colonel Second South Carolina cavalry. 

August 22, 1862; brigadier-general, F. A. C. S., September i, 1863; major-general, P. A. C. S., September 19, 1.^64. 
Lost his right leg in the battle of Brandy Station, June g, 1863; returned to duty November, 1863; surrendered with Gen 

Joe Johnston at Greensboro. N. C. in April, 1865. 
After the war, resumed practice of law. and was elected member of the South Carolina legislature in 1866; elected Uiiited 
States senator and admitted to his seat December 2. 1877: re-elected in 18R2 and again in iSSg, his term expiring 
March 3. 1895. He took a prominent part in ridding his state of "carpet bag rule" and was a delegate to a number 
of state conventions, and resides in Edgefield. S. C. 



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Col. Turner: '-Our next speaker will speak to tlie toast, 'The 
American Soldier in Histor\. In these da\s of peace, when they are 
trying to read the soklier out of the part}', I hope this gentleman will 
give us a good setting forth. He was a splendid cavalry general, one 
ot the l)est in the service, and he has the honor to he horn in South 
Carolina, and to have represented that state in Congress. I take 
pleasure in introducing Maj.-CJen. M. C. Butler." ( Prolongetl applause. ) 




MAJ.-GEN. MATTHEW C. BUTLER, 



(Jf South Carolina- 



Gen. Butler: " A/r. Cluiiriiuiii and Gcntlcincn — 1 have been assigned 
a subject to-night, in the discussion of which I might occupy 
two or three hours, but fortunately the chairman lias announced we 
shall be restricted to fi\e minuti'S, and I beg to express to him my pro- 
found thanks for that restriction (laughter 1: not only on my own 
account, because sometimes I like to e.xtend my remarks, but there is an 
immense amount of oratory and eloquence here to-night, and if it were 
given free rein the sun might rise upon this assembly. 

"I need not, Mr. Chairman, go outside of this room to illustrate the 
soldier of American history. On my right and on my left and in front 
of me I see them, and I think it is no exaggeration, it is no extreme 
expression of national vanity to say that in our generation as great and 
distinguished soldiers have been produced as have ever been found in 
the world's history, (.\pplause. ) I will not attempt — of course not — to 
enumerate them. But there are many of the soldiers of this late family 
trouble of ours who might easily have been ranked with the most 
brilliant field marshals of the French Empire, of the First Consul; 
nian\- of them who might have taken rank with the greatest soldiers of 
an\' war. 

"And now, my friends, liecause, as my distinguished friend said, I 
feel that I have the right to address you as friends — I want to pause 
one moment to pay a tribute, a sincere, hom-st, candid tribute, to one of 
the most distinguished — 1 say. oiu- of the most distinguished — soldiers 
on the other side in our troul.les. the late Walter Q. Gresham. 
( Applause. ) You are to buiy him here to-morrow. The whole country will 
do honor to his character and to his memory, and there is no American 
citizen who has ever died, who deserves that honor more than Gresham. 
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whi-'ii he was postmaster-f^eneral durinfi; Mr. Arthur's administration, and 
I thrre learned, not onl}' to respect him, but to entertain tor him the ver}' 
highest esteem. He came into Mr. Cleveland's administration as secre- 
tary of state, and as a member of the committee on foreign relations of 
the Senate, it was not only my privilege to confer with him frequently 
but candidly and frankly. I say to \ou, gentlemen, from all sections of 
this country, the north, south, east and west, that since the days of Hamil- 
ton Fish, no secretary of state has had mort-' delicate and difficult 
questions to deal with than Judge Gresham. And I want to say another 
thing, that there has been no secretary of state in this country who has 
dealt with them with nmru ability and candor and directness than he. 
(Applause.) Many of his acts have been misunderstood, because in the 
very nature of his negotiations they were secret. Tlu' time will come, 
my friends, when this country, without regard to part\-, will sustain and 
vindicate the acts of Secretary Gresham. 

"And I want to add this tribute to what has been said so eloquently 
and feelingly by my friend. Gen. Hampton, in pursuance of the resolu- 
tion which he offered. When our distinguished friend, Gen. Gordon, 
delivered his first lecture in Washington, where there were g,ooo people 
to listen to him in the Con\'ention hall, a Confederate major, who is 
present to-night, introduced the chairman for the occasion. That con- 
vention was presided over by the now Lieut. -Gen. Schofield, commanding 
general of the army. Gen. Gordon delivered that marvelous address of 
his, and after he got through I turned to Admiral Jewett, who was in the 
Federal navy, and I said: -Jewett, if a stranger were to come into this 
audience, do you think he would be able to discriminate between the 
man who was a rebel, and the man who was faithful to the Union?' He 
says: 'No, I think not.' He said: 'This meeting could not occur in an\' 
other country on earth,' and the same thing is true to-night. 1 do not 
believe there is another city on the face of the earth that would have had 
the audacity to have done what Chicago has done in inviting us rebels 
here to-night (Great applause. ) And f do not know of any city that 
could better afford to do it than Chicago. 

"And I want to say to you, my friends, that 1 respond to the cordial 
welcome, as far as I am concerned, and all those whom I have a right to 
speak for, in the most candid manner, and taking a material view of it — 
a practical view, outside of the sentiment which you have been indulging 
in to-night, I doubt very much if there is an old rebel anywhere in the 
south, who wants to buy anything, who will not say: -Well, I believe I 
will go to Chicago. (Laughter.) They treated our old chieftains, 
Hanijiton and Longstreet and Fitzhugh Lee and Stephen D. Lee and all 




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of those old rebels kind of honestly wlun thi-\ ^'ot up there, and I think 
\vi- will send up there when we have ,i;ot to buy.' That is the practical 
side of it. (Laughter. I 

•■But I am inclined to think that I am about to exceed m\ limit (cries 
of no! no! goon!) That reminds me of |erry Phillips. Jerr\- I'hillips 
was lieutenant in my old regiment; den. Hampton knows him very well, 
and Jerry could never learn the tactics. I had a school, 1 remember, 
when I was colonel of the regiment, and all the subordinate officers 
attended the school of tactics; he would insist on calling saber, salirees; 
and one da}-, down at Hampton's Crossing, Kilpatrick ran in on him: he 
was out on picket and had about thirty men, the reserve, am.!, rather 
unceremoniousl\-, Kilpatrick called on him, and Jerry wanted to i;et 
away, \'ery naturally. (Laughter.) So he got his reser\es in line, 
but didn't know e.xaetly how to get into column. He rode out in front of 
liis command, and drew his sword and gave this command: -Attention!' 
and this was his order to get into column: 'Leak out liy twos if you 
can't fcjrm fours: draw s;d)rees and charge without discretion; follow me, 
by God.' And away the\ went. Gentlemen. 1 retire." (Laughter and 
applause. ) 

Col. Turner: "Gentlemen, this is not a national beauty show, but 1 
am ver^-glad to say that after the very fine specimen of southern chivalry, 
the next speaker will be Gen. John C. Black. I want to sa}' to our 
friends from the south that he is just as good and brave as he is pretty." 



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GEX. JOHN C. BLACI\, 



Of Illinois. 



Gen. Black: "I never saw a bald-headed toastmaster that did not 
make fun of a man with a full head of hair.'' (I^aughter. ) 

Col. Turner: ••! knew he wouldn't stick to his toast, so 1 thought I 
would let him have his own vvaw" 

Gen. Black: -'The limit of time, gentlemen, in this case is the 
comfort of some of us, and the protection of all. I am to speak to a 
sentiment which the toastmaster has neglected, in his desire to jibe at 
his victim, to announce to you. It is found on your bill of fare, how- 
ever, and I have no doubt is thoroughly appreciated by xou all. 'Here's 
the Hand of Fellowship.' Now I would like to know who is going to 
forbid the e.xtension of the hand of fellowship? Who is there in all 
this land. <lrunk or sober, that would deliberateK rise up and sa}-. • Do 







BRIG. -GEN. JOHN C. BLACK. 

DURING THE SIXTIES. 





May 20 - ,^i, 1895. 



BIOGRAPHIC: 

John Charles Black was born in Mississippi in iSvj' resident of Illinois since 1S47; received a classical education and 

studied law. 
Enlisted in Eleventh regiment infantry. Indiana volnnieers, U. S. A.. April 15, 1861, and served until July 25: re-enlisted from 

Illinois July 2S, 1861. 
Major. Thirty-seventh reKiment infantry. Illinois volunteers. September 5, iS5i; lieutenant-colonel. July 12, 1K62; colonel. 

December 51. 1862: brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, April 8. 1865, for gallant services; served in the field 

throughout the war and was badly wounded. 
Appointed fnited States commissioner of pensions March 5, 1885, resigned March 4. i88g, but served until his successor was 

appointed. 
Elected congressman at-large for State of Illinois. November, 1895. 
Appointed United States district attorney for Northern district ot Illinois. January, 1S95 



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not extend the hand (if fellowship to an\' Anierican?-"' 

the whole thing, tlie whole substance of all that I nii,!;lit sa\ to \(m if 1 

had the night before me. There is no sane man under the American 

Hag to-da\ who does not say the hand of fellowship ougiit to be and is 

extended. 

"This mornmg 1 addressed an assemblage of school chikiren, a rep- 
resentative assemblage a thousand strong, from amidst 14,000,000 of 
school children who occupy the public schools in America. Not one of 
them ever heard a hostile gun. To each and every one of the 14,000,000 
who are to-day attending the public schools in the forty-four states and 
the territories, the war that we. some of us. remember is simply and 
purely history. There is left to them of that histor)' very little besides 
its beaut\' and that glamour which always hangs about the achievements 
of stricken fields. 

"To-morrow it will be mine to stand by the side of the graves of 
comrades. We that are here occujiy a middle place between the gener- 
ation that comes on resistlessly and that which passes to its rest. To us. 
the survivors of the two armies, is left the rarest privilege, and that is, 
that we shall, in the same generation that carried on war, bind up all 
the wounds of war (apiplause) and leave to those that are to come after 
us only the heritage of affectionate remembrance of deeds of American 
valor, American heroism and American honor. And standing on this 
high plane, we, the few survivors of battles and of war, can look back- 
ward through a vista now thirty-five years long, and through that vista 
we see what, thank God, has become history. As 1 look there, Mr. 
Chairman, I can see emerging from a peaceful people the ranks of the 
blue and the gray approaching each other in the final arbitrament of war. 
1 can see, dancing above, the flags which now. so great is the distance, 
need the field-glass of history to determine the stars that shone in the 
blue. I can hear the thunder of the cannons, and the shouting; I can 
see all that was grand and terrible of war. That was a generation ago, 
and the jears are dropping their \eil. thickening ever, between us and 
the sorrows of that time. We are upon the mountain top of a great 
opportunity, we who surxive, and as we turn our backs toward that past 
and look toward the future, we see about us the thronging millions that 
yet shall be and that now are, the descendants of the republic, all of 
them true to the mighty cause of a great Nation. Our feet are upon the 
very edge of the gentle descent that leads from the front of active life 
toward the retirement that all men love. But there is still before us a 
vista of glor\' and promise of the greatness of the republic \et to come, 
wortliy of all the sacrifices and of all the labors of the past. And. 







MAJ.-CEN FITZHUGH LEE, 

DUPING THK SIXTIES. 




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Line I. 1^95 



BIOGRAPHIC. 

Fitzhugh Lee was born at Clermoiint. Fairfax countv.Va.. November lo. 1S37; graduated at United States Military Academy in 

1S56. 
Commissioned in United States army: — 

Brevet second lieutenant. Second cavalry, July i, 1856. second lieutenant, January i. 185S; tirst lieutenant, March 31, 1S61; 
resigned commission in United States army, May 21. iSfu. 
Commissioned in Confederate States army: — 

First lieutenant, corps of cavalry. C. S. A., to rank from March 16. 1861; lieutenant-colonel. First Virginia cavalry, August, 
1.S61; colonel. March. ia(>2; brigadier-general. P. A C. S., July 24. 1S62; major-general, P. A. C S., August 3. 1863. 
Governor of Virginia 1HS6-90. United States internal revenue collector for Virginia, iSgg — with office at Lynchburg. 




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standing between that past struggle and this future of promise, wlio shal 
say that the hand of fellowship shall not he extended? (Applause.) 
Who shall say that, whatever may have been different within the past, 
every American is not the brother of every other yVmerican under the 
flag? (Great applause.) And in this imperial city, the theater of great 
civic accomplishment, we of the blue welcome with extended hands 
and with earnest hearts you that wore the gray." (Applause. ) 

Col. Turner. "The next toast is a response to that which the toast- 
master inadvertently omitted to announce, the two being a couplet, 
'Here's tlie Hand of Fellowship,' which has been so splendidly handled 
by our friend, Gen. Black, and the response, • Shall not the South 
Grasp It ? ' to be responded to by the bearer of one of America's historic 
names, one which is the propierty of all Americans — the name of Lee. 
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the great cavalry leader, the great southern horse- 
man, will answer Gen. Black." 



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MAJ.-GEN. FITZHUGH LEE. 



Of Vireinia. 



Gen. Lee (greeted with cheers): "■Mr. Chainiian and Genth'iiu-ii — The 
country seems to be safe to-night. (Laughter.) I find myself surrounded 
upon every side by thp flag of the United States. I had a similar experi- 
ence aliout thirty years ago (laughter) at the little village of Appomattox, 
and I remember sleeping the night after I received my parole between two 
major-generals of the United States army. I never felt safer. Indeed 
I had not felt so secure for many of the preceding days. Both of my 
flanks were well protected. (Great laughter. ) History in a measure 
repeats itself. To-night the mayor of what he terms the greatest city 
m the world — it is evident he has never been to Richmond, Va.. (laughter 
and applause) — sits here quietly, calmly and serenely smoking his cigar 
between two rebellious rebel generals of cavalry. Wade Hampton and 
Fitzhugh Lee, and he is not afraid. (Laugliter. ) 

'T respond to the toast with great pleasure, Mr. Chairman, because 
I feel when the right hand of fellowship is held out by one section it is 
the duty of the other section to grasp and hold it. I say. therefore, to 
Gen. Black, we are both Americans, we are now citizens of this great 
country and it is equally our respective duty to promote its glory, 
grandeur and growth, ((ireat applause.) Each side had a cause to 
fight for, and if we want to have true fellowship in this countr}-. we must 
give the people at the north credit for fighting gallantly, nobly and hero- 




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icaih in bfhalf of their cause, and thty must f^ive the south credit for 
defending courageously their fundamental faith. You. sir, fought to 
maintain this country as an tmdivided republic, stretching from where 
the frozen fingers are laid upon the icy lakes of the north, to where the 
great father of waters rolls his tribute to the gulf, and from the chasing 
waves of the Atlantic upon the east, to where the great billows of the 
Pacific break into golden sands upon the California shore. You earnestly 
desired one great republic. I fought to make two republics grow 
where only one grew before. 

"We were brought up differently. We of the south were educated 
in the theory that our states could blaze their own paths and declare 
their own course through the action of a convention, its highest repre- 
sentative body. We were taught that when this Union was formed, the 
constitution was silent on the question of the secession of a state. There- 
fore, when the states of the south spoke through their conventions, and 
determined to leave the Union, their decision was binding upon their 
citizens. I can e.xplain in no other way that men were willing to leave 
their homes, their huts, cottages and castles, and stand steady in long 
ranks and let the men who wore the blue shoot shot and shell at them, 
unless they fought for the faith that was in them. 

"Thirty years have elapsed since the sound — the 'dead echo,' as it 
has been termed — of the last gun of the last battle has been heard. No 
more do camp fires blaze through the land. No more do we hear the 
strains of martial music, no longer do men face men in battle. In the 
armies of the south we had soldiers as brave as the Spartans who fought 
in the pass of Thermopylae. In the armies of the north there were men 
whose courage was not surpassed by the Old Guard of Napoleon when 
making the final charge, before the field of Waterloo was won by 
Wellington. Both sides added their contributions to American valor. 
For example, I saw your men at the battle of Fredericksburg, when the 
lightning was scorching the ground beneath their feet, charging in front 
of Marye's hill, and you saw our troops leave the lines of their comrades 
at the battle of Gettysburg and bravely march to the fire-crowned 
heights. Give us credit upon the one side and we will give you credit 
upon the other, and together we will make this great republic what our 
forefathers intended it should be — the glory of America and a blessing 
to humanity. (Prolonged applause. ) 

"Soldiers upon each side are rapidly passing away. Tiie sound of 
'taps" upon the eternal shores are already being heard b\- some of them 
every day, and many suns will not set before the veterans upon either 
side have furled their battle flags forever. Lincoln is gone. Davis is 




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dead. Tht- swords of diant ami Lt-e have ri'luiiu-d to thi.ir scabbards; 
the tents of ShLTinaii and jiu- [ohnston are pitclicd upon thr etiinal 
camping ground; the sabers of Slieridan and Stuart no longer flash in 
the fore-front of battle, while many of the men who followed these 
leaders are now 'but a luunlful of dust in the land of their choice, a 
name in song and stor^', and fame, to shout with her truni])et \oice. 
Dead I dead, upon the field of glory!' 

"Englishmen, whose past iiattles ai^aiiist caili <>thcr are recorded upon 
the pages of history as evidence of their valor and endurance, are proud 
of old P.ngland whose morning drum-beat follows the sun, and whose 
martial strains are heard in unbroken music all over the world. We. too, 
can be proud of our country. We, too. on either side, can by the hand 
of fellowship make it a great and forever undivided republic. We can 
not do it by abusing each other; we can not do it by flying in the faces 
of each other in time of peace, and we can not do it by criticising 
each others' actions on memorial occasions. I know we are alwa\'S glad 
to see your great demonstrations in remembrance of the services and 
courage of your soldiers, and vou should know that when we assemble 
together for the purpose of honoring the valor of our living, or paying 
respect to the memory of our dead, there is nothing inconsistent in that, 
with the duties we owe to a great and unitetl country. (Great 
applause. ) 

"We fervently pray with you that as the veil of futurity is raised, 
we will see an American Union whose course is ever onward and 
upward — a repidilic representing more power and commanding more 
respect than ever the armies of C;esar and Augustus won for the imperial 
eagles, and we will unite with you in praying that state will not lift 
up its hand against state, neither shall they know war again, luit that the 
reign of peace, unity and fratiTuity shall be as 'lasting as the home of 
the stars, as eternal as the foumlation of the everlasting hills.' " (Great 
applause. ) 

Col. Turner: " We are to hear of sotithern chivalry from i 776 to 1S65 
from an ideal southern soldier. The gentleman who will speak to you 
first appeared during the last thirty-five years at the head of a little com- 
pany of 500 or 5oo men, named the Hampton Legion, which had lieen 
equipped and brought into service at his own personal e.xpense. I think 
he started as a captain or a major — a colonel — but he retired from service 
with the highest rank possible, lieutenant-general. I take great pleasure 
in introducing Lieut. Gen. Wade }Ianipton of South Carolina." (Cheers 
and applause. ; 



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I,IEUT.-GEN. WADE HAMF 

DURING THH SIXTIES. 




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May 2g - 31. 1893 



BIOGRAPHIC: 

W ade Hainptoii, tlie Kraiulscm of the revolutionary general by that name, was born hi Columbia, S. C, March 2S. iHiS; gradu- 
ated at the I'niveisiiy of South Carolina, and in early life served m the lenisjitture of his state. 

Slate senator when South Carolina seceded; resigned, volunteered as a private, and served in the Confederate army during 
I he war. 

Colonel of the celebrated Hampton Legion, composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery, which he recruited and equipped 
in if6i. 

Hriyadiergeneral, P. A. C. S.. May 23, 1862; major-general, P. A. C. S., August 3, 1S63; lieutenant-general. P. A. C S., February 
14. 1SO5; and, after the death ot Gen, J. K. B. Stuart, commanded the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia under 
Gen. R. E. Lee, and the cavalry of Gen, Jos. E. Johnston's army during Gen, Sherman's march ihrough the Carolinas; 
he was woundtd many times and was noted for his military ability and gallantry. 

Governor of South Carolina twice, having been elected in 1876 and re-elected in 1S78. 

Inited States senator two teims. elected in December, 1878, and re-elected in iStS4. 

United Slates commissioner of railroads, under appointment by President Cleveland, in 1893— 



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LIEUT.-GEN. WADE liAMrTON, 

Of South Carolina 

Gen. Hampton: "Mr. Chairman — Our toastmaster has given me a 
theme that, as my friend on mj' right, my old colleague. Gen. Butler, 
says, it would take me several hours to do justice to — the chivalry of the 
soutli. 1 did not come liere to speak of the south. 1 came here with a 
grateful heart to thank the people of Chicago for doing what 1 think is 
the most honorable thing that has been done by any people in the his- 
tor)- of America. (Applause.) Narrow-minded and bigoted men may 
abuse you, and may abuse us, who come here fron.i the south at 
your invitation, to do honor, not to Confederate soldiers, not to 
victors in a great civil strife, but to dead Confederates, men who rep- 
resented the bravery, the courage, the devotion to duty, the very highest 
type of .American manhood. You have called us here to join vou in 
doing honor to these men, and we have come here to take the hand of 
good fellowship, of comradeship which 3'ou have offered to us. 

"But, m\' friends, if I was to commence to talk of the cliivalry of the 
south, what theme would be better than to say, that you ought to be 
southerners yourselves \ Who gave you this magnificent territory Imt 
the Old Dominion? (Applause.) Who gave you Washington, who 
gave you Jefferson, and Patrick Ifenr}'. and the tlmusand ci\ il and mili- 
tary men that made the history of America luminous, but Virginia? 
Who gave all this magnificent northwestern territory, and gave it to 
promote the union of the states? You ought to have been Virginians — 
you are \'irginians, in fact ! About what my friend says of Rich- 
mond: 1 have been in Richmond a good deal, but 1 do not think 
Richmond is as large as Chicago. (Laughter. ) It is a very good place, 
as some of \ou people know, and it gave us a great deal of trouble in 
the war to take care of it. (Laughti'r. ) 

"Now. my friends, it was rather an unfair atlvantage taken of me to 
bring me out here to make a speech, which I will say. in all candor, was 
the hardest work — 1 have not finished yet. but it is the hardest work I 
ever undertook in \w\ hfe. I do not want niv soutliern friends to believe 
that I have gone back on them, and yet I w'ant to say everything I 
possibly can, for I feel with the most grateful heart. 1 want to say 
everj'thing in candor and sincerit\ of the magnificent hospitaHty e.\tended 




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HIOGRAPHIC: 

Hiram Washington Thomas was born in Hampshire county, Va., April 29. 1S32. He worked on a farm and attended winter 
schools until 18 years old; then for two years took a special course at Berlin Seminary, Pennsylvania; studied at the Iowa 
Wesleyan University; received degree of Doctor of Divinity from Indiana Asbury University in i86r. 

Preached three years as a student when in Virginia and Pennsylvania; joined Iowa Conference M. E. church in 1S56; transferred 
to Kock River Conference and stationed at Park Avenue f:hurch, Chicago, in 1869, and remained three years, then 
three years at the First church, Chicago, two years at Aurora, three years at the Centenary church, Chicago, was then 
tried and expelled for heresy. During the pendency of his trial, which lasted over a year, he began independent minis- 
terial work, and preached at Hooley's theater, out of which has grown the People's Church of Chicago, of which he is and 
has been pastor for over fifteen vears. 

Chaplain First regiment, infantry I. N. G., for the past fifteen years, and served two terms as grand chaplain of the Masonic 
order of Illinois. Member of the ditterent clubs in the City of Chicago, and. besides being an eminent divine, is a con- 
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to us herL'. of the fellowship \ou have shown, of the nobility' and the 
niagnanimit\' of the people of Chicago which they displayed in puttini; 
up a monument to the Confederate dead. " (Great applause. ) 

Col. Turner: •■ •Tlu' Christian Side of the Soldier.' To Chicago people 
Dr. Thomas needs no introduction. To \ ou, friends from the south, 1 
wish to say. from personal acquaintance, that no bigger heart ever grew 
either north or south of Mason and Di.xon's line, than that which will 
speak to you now. '' 




RE\'. H. W. THOiNIAS, D. D. 

Of Chicago. 

Dr. Thomas: '•A/r. Cliaii man and Fritnds — It was not known to me 
that I was expected to say anytliing until since we came together. And 
yet it would be a poor, dumb spirit that would not feel tin- thrill of life 
and be able to sa\' something on such an occasion as this. I too, with 
Gen. Hampton, am a X'irginian. I too, with Gen. Hampton, and with 
you all, am an American. It seems to me, brothers, that the time has come 
when we have to put larger meanings into the old words. We have to 
put a larger meaning into the thought of a Christian and of Christianity. 
We have to put a larger meaning into the thought of the soldier, the 
Christian side of the soldier. We can no longer define a Christian simply 
by such terms as Catholic or Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, Presby- 
terian, orthodox or liberal. The Christian is the noblest t)'pe of a man. 
(Applause. ) Jesus the Christ was not a weak, supplicating sentiment- 
ality in the world. He was a tremendous personality, and so great that 
he could call himself b\' no less term than the Son of Man. Larger than 
Hebrew, Jew, Roman, he belonged to humanit\'. Christianity means and 
emphasizes selfhood, personality. Not a shrinking, hiding, retiring, 
getting awa}', but the manhood that stands up for its noblest conviction, 
and He taught that He came not alone for peace, but for war; that the 
antagonisms of life must go on until the final reconciliations shoidd come. 
And when we talk of the Christian side of the soldier, we mean the human 
siile, the largest man-side, the side that stands tor the right and must 
stand for that as the soldier sees it at the time. That is the reason we 
honor our noble southern brethren. That is the reason they honor us. 
( Applause. ) Because there were no cowards on either side, and we met 
in the great arbitrament of battle to settle questions, not that we had 
created, but that we had inherited. (Applause.) History moves by 
compromises, but compromises at last could not settle the debates and 
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this, as it meant back in the wars between Greek and Trojan, that over 
all our debates and differences there is a higher power, there is an 
eternal right; for in those old Greek wars everything at last had to be 
referred to the Eternal power. Men might differ, the lower gods might 
differ, but the Eternal Zeus at last decided, and it is to that higher 
tribunal to which we appeal all our great causes. And I tell you, friends, 
it is the Christian side of the soldier, the believing side, the faith in the 
eternal right, that gives the soldier his courage, and it is the Christian 
side of the soldier, and the soldier side of the Christian, that has made 
possible these great days of reconciliation — these years of peace, greater 
than were the years of war. It is the Christian side of the soldier, and 
soldier siile of the Cliristian that makes possible the dedication, and 
glad the dedication of the monument in which we all join in honor of 
men who died far away from home and friends. (Applause.) 

'■I tell you more; This great occasion, this shaking of hands and 
touching of hearts across the troubled chasms and darkness of the 
past, means a greater and more beautiful and loving life in the future. 
East and west and north and south shall feel the thrill and the joy of 
brotherhood. Yes. and it is the Christian side of the soldier, and the 
soldier side of the Christian, that does not want to carry the warfares 
of this life into the peaceful lands beyond death. For, in the will of 
the Eternal, we are moving over and camping one by one on the fields 
of peace, and it is the Christianity of this age, the lo\ e of God and 
man, that is saying to us: ' Let us have some of that joy and peace 
and brotherhood here on earth.' (Great applause.) We will all hail, 
brothers, the future born out of to-night and born out of to-morrow, 
and the glad and happier days to come in this our great, and united 
country. " ( Applause. ) 

Col. Turner: "Gen. Lee proved himself so good a substitute in his 
reponse to the address of welcome, that 1 think you will all join with me 
in that recent piece of slang, which says, 'It is a good thing, push it 
along,' and be gla<l tti hear from him again (m 'The Prosperous South 
Land. ''' 

LIEUT. -GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE, 

of Mississippi 

Gen. Lee: "J//'. Toastinaster and Citizrus of Chicago, ivho liave given 
lis //lis imperial ivt Icoiiif — Out of a full heart I would speak my apprecia- 
tion ot the generous spirit which has found e.xpression in these hospi- 
talities. It is only a few days since I stood in a great gathering of sur- 
viving Confederate soldiers at Houston, gray-haired veterans, whose 
ranks are now melting away swifter than in the valle}' of death at Shiloh 




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or on the red heiglits of Chickaiiiauga. From these men, whose years are 
few to forgive or to be forgiven, 1 bring you to-night a message of peace 
and reconciliation (applause) — a message, that many years ago the last 
feeling of unbrotherly hatred and bitter remembrance died in their hearts, 
and that the love of our common country left no room for the prejudices 
and the suspicions of the past. (Applause ) Standing here upon the 
soil that was once Virginia's, every southern heart glows with pride tliat 
the star of Illinois, which our hands placed in the firmament of states, 
now shines with such surpassing luster, t^very southern heart thrills 
with pride, also, that from Kentucky came the farmer's boy, Abraliam 
Lincoln, whose hands in the pirovidence of God, struck the shackles 
from the republic, when he struck them from the slave. (Great applause.) 

"But I have another message to bear to you — a message of welcome 
from our now prosperous southern land, fully recovered from the desola- 
tion of war, to come and share with us the blessings of our fertile soil, 
our genial climate, the riches of our forests, the mineral wealth of our 
mountains. To you we come to seek our immigrants, to occupy our sur- 
plus arable lands. There are none so welcome to us, as our fellow citi- 
zens, whose industry we value in peace, as their courage we honored in 
war. I would I could speak into the ear of American youth, like another 
Greeley, the words. 'Go south, young men.' We want you for our 
neighbors and friends. There remains the ungarnered, the greatest 
harvests of American industry. But, my friends, under the five-minute 
rule, I must hasten on and sum it all up in one sentence. Since the 
Almighty has decreed the marriage of the north and south to be indis- 
soluble, we of the south mean that our national house shall be a home. 

"Now, that thirty milestones of the years have been passed since the 
last life was offered up for the love of our country, the southern people, 
making no apologies for the past, since, as you generously recognize, 
they fought for the right as they saw it, and tlid their duty as they 
understood it, do not regret that the Great God, who holds the ilestiny 
of nations, settled the question of state sovereignty and slavery for our 
common and everlasting good. It cost the dearest sacrifice of blood 
and treasure that ever a people laid upon the altar. But was it not 
worth it all to solve these awful problems, which our forefathers could not 
solve, but bequeathed to us? The clock of the universe had struck the 
hour when slavery should be no more; when our Union should be made 
complete; when the sin of north and south alike should be redeemed by 
the blood of the patriot. .'\nd now that prosperity has come south to 
stay, now that the battlefields stained with the blood of almost a million 
lives, are green with harvest, and our sunny land is fragrant with the 
blossoms of a great future, we rejoice that this is one country and not 
two (applause); that all the stars our fathers placed on the flag, remain 





May 29-31, 1895. 



liIO('.RAPHIC: 

Alfred Orendorti was born near Lincoln, I.ogan county, III., July 29, 1S45; educated at Wesleyan University. Bloom- 

ington, and Albany, N. Y., Law Scliool. 
Captain Company I, One Hundred and Thirty-tliird Illinois volunteer infantry. United States army, during the civil war. 
Member of general assembly. i8-3-i«74, and has been chairman of the Democratic state central committee for a term. 
Adjutant-general of Illinois 1893-1896. 
Prominent Oddfellow, having been grand master of Illinois; grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge and general 

comtnanding the Third Array corps. Patriarch Militant. 
Broad and liberal in bis views, a lawyer by profession and practice and a cultivated gentleman. Resides in Springheld, III. 



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to gladden the eves of their children, and that the sons of men who stood 
shoulder to shoulder at liunker Hill and Vorktown, shall stantl shoulder 
to shoulder forever. 

" But, are these words false to the memory of those who sleep at Oak- 
woods underneath the sod ? We shall say that but for their death, 
slavery and secession might have been with us still; that through their 
sacrifice this Union ceased to be a house of strife and l)ecame a house 
of peace. iVnd, my brethren of the north, shall we not also say that 
these men who died as free men, fighting for a constitutional principle, 
are worthy to be honored of all men? They may not have understood, 
perhaps, the niceties of sovereignty; but they knew how to die on this 
frozen shore, far away from the land they loved, from mother and from 
home. They need only have taken the oath of allegiance, or have 
enlisted in the conipiering armies of the republic to hght against the 
Indians, and life and freedom would have been theirs. But these simple- 
hearted, faithful men — privates — preferred the death of the captive, a 
wretched death, rather than give up the principles in which they believed. 
You may say that they were mistaken; that they were, perhaps, 
misguided; that it was folly, that it was madness; yet, is there a brave 
man who will not stand with uncovered head before the fidelity, the 
heroism of these dead? Is there one who will not bow before their dust? 

"To-morrow there will march out to Oakwoods, the sons of men who 
lie sleeping there. To-morrow flowers, plucked by loving hands in the 
far-off land for which they gave their lives, will be laid upon their ashes. 
Do you wonder that the south loves these men? Would you have it 
otherwise, for the honor of our race? Would you have it otlierwise. for 
the honor of our humanit}-? (Cries of no, no!) And to-morrow, as we 
stand beside these dead, may the whole Nation stand with us, forgetting 
the past, loving all her children everywhere, and ma)- that monument 
which is to be dedicated to the glory of the dead be also one of recon- 
ciliation to the living." (Cireat applause.) 

Col. Turner: "Our ne,\t sjieaker, owing to the absence of the 
governor of the state, whom he represents, will speak to the te.\t 
'Illinois,' in place of the toast which has been assigned to him." 



BRK..-(;eX. ALFRED ORENDORFF 

Adjut.Tnt-General ol Illinois. 



Gen. Orendorff: "J//-. Chainnaii ami Giiitl,in,'ii -It would be, 
jierhaps, in this truly national gathering, invidious to speak of any 
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ciiining to our commonwealth. The great State of Illinois welcomes 
3011 to its borders upon this mission of paying a debt of gratitude and 
devotion to the brave dead whose monument you will consecrate 
to-morrow. In speaking of our state, time would not permit, if it were 
desirable, to talk of its material resources; neither would it, perhaps, be 
in good taste to speak of Illinois' sons, were it not that those that I 
shall mention were typical Americans. Our greatest son, Abraham 
Lincoln, who enunciated the sentiments spoken by one of the gentlemen 
who has addressed you to-night, whose greatest utterance was: 'Charit)- 
to all, with malice toward none,' and with the purpose to bind up the 
Nation's wounds, Abraham Lincoln stepped from the topmost round of 
Fame's ladder to a home in the skies. And we had another citizen 
familiar to many of the older gentlemen who adorn this occasion — a 
statesman — Stephen A. Douglas. (Applause.) On his dying bed, when 
he was asked what word he had to send to his sons, he spoke a 
benediction which should rest upon the youth of America when he said: 
'Tell them to obey the laws and uphold the constitution of the United 
States.' (Applause.) 

•■ And there is still another, whose name has also been spoken in this 
presence — another Illinoisan, the great, silent commander. (Applause.) 
He issued many orders, he spoke many words of wisdom, yet the greatest 
sentiment he ever uttered was, when, after the internecine strife was 
over, he proclaimed throughout the land that e.xalted sentiment, ' Let us 
have peace.' (Applause.) 

" 1 am persuaded that if those who have gone beyond take an interest 
in the affairs of earth, that those typical Americans are looking from 
their upper homes with approval upon this scene to-night. (Applause.) 

■'The sudden transition from the sentiment assigned me. 'The New 
Soldiery, the National Guard," is such, and the time is so limited, that I 
have only to say that the true, real National Guard is the brave American 
citizens who are represented here to-night. The Nation is guarded bj' 
brave and true men in every section of our country. 

"Let me say to you, my friends, that the people of the State of Illinois 
gladly welcome this distinguished company to this commonwealth. We 
wish you to see Chicago, the imperial city. We wish 3'ou to see whatever 
we have of material enterprise. We wish j'ou to see whatever may be 
pointed out to you, but we have a more cherished hope than that, and 
that is, that when 30U return to the loved ones at home you may, 
after you describe what you have seen, be able to say that 3'ou found in 
the State of Illinois men with warm American hearts, who gave you an 
American welcome." (Applause.) 



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Col. Turner: •• In the list of speakers who are absentees, there are 
four or five on xhv remainder of the program. The next speaker 
present will speak to the topic. -The E.xercises of Official fnfluence and 
Power.' I now introduce Solicitor-General Holmes Conrad, from 
Washington." 




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lOLMES CONRAD. 



Solicitor-C'icin'ial l" S,, of \Vashington City. 



Maj. Holmes Conrad: ■■ Mr. Chainnaii — I announce a truism in the 
statement that there is not (jue foot of ground within the limits of 
tliis Union over which the laws of this government are not suprt.nie. 
There is not one foot of ground over which its gorgeous ensign is ncjt the 
unerring symbol of Federal supremac\-. (Applause.) 

"There is nothing in the historv of this government that pistilies any 
man in the land in the notion that an^'thing but law can determine and 
control the exercise of governmental power. There is no act of any man 
holding an oftice in this government that can be justified in the sight of 
the law, e.xcept that action be in pursuance of some Federal statute or 
settled rule of law. It is but a truism to say that public office is a pub- 
lic trust. 

'•As well may v-^e expect one into whose hands we entrust the wealth 
of a national treasury to exercise his personal discretion in the disposal 
of the treasure, as to justify one into whose hands has been confided 
official power, to dispense that power in the advancement of his own 
personal or political interest. 

••Both parties — if f may. in this hallowed assembh'. refer to parties — 
and all parties have to agree that it is the iluty of ever\- officeholder to exer- 
cise the power confided to him, not in the interest of part\\ not in the 
interest of individual, not in the interest of section, but in the interest of 
a government which they have sworn to support. (Applause. ) 

"It exists in the platforms, whether in fact it exists in the consciences 
of those who stand u])on tluin. that civil service is the only hope of the 
efficient exercise of governmental power. Yet we have seen, and all 
here who have held place in legislative, judicial or executive departments, 
will attest the truth of the utterano', that nothing has so impeded, noth- 
ing has so impaired the efficient execution of official power as the dispo- 
sition on the part of the incumbent to exercise that power in the direction 
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BIOGRAPHIC: 



Holmes Conrad was bom in Winchesicr, Va.. January 31, 1840; educated at the Winchester Academy and I'niverslty of 
Virt^inia. 

Kniisted as a private in Company A, First \'irginia cavalry, Confederate army. April 17, 1S61, and was appointed and remained 
first sergeant of his troop until January, 1S62, when he was transferred to and became lieutenant and adjutant of the 
Seventeenth battalion, later the EIe\'enlh resinient \'irginia ca\'alry. 

Captain and assistant inspector-general of cavalry brigade, and in October, 1S64, promoted to major and assistant inspector- 
general and served under Gen. Rosser to the close of the war. 

Studied law and was admitted to the bar in January, iS66. Member of Virginia legislature in iS^i-a.and elector-at-large in 1892. 

Assistant Attorney-General of the United Stales. June, 1893. Solicitor-General of the United States, February, 1895— 




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"But 1 ha\e no interest in speakint; on this subject. I do so onl)- in 
submission to thf duty which the toast imyioscs upon nie. I am strain- 
ing up hill in getting awa\- from tiie subject which inspires every heart 
here to-night, and that is. the union of these soldiers here. What care 1 
for the civil pciwer of this .t;o\(_rnment now?' What cart' I for the execu- 
tion of the civil law? As 1 look back across this chasm of thirty years, 
and see those who sometime stood in opposing ranks, now in all sin- 
cerity, candor and heartiness clasping hands here at this festive board 
to-night, I look forward in the spirit which has been inspired by those 
who precedetl me, as the Pilgrim in the immortal allegory looked from 
the summit of the Delectable moimtains over into the land called lieau- 
tiful; and I am filled with hope that has been foreign to my heart for 
thirty years, by the declarations that have come from the lips of those 
whose sincerity 1 dare not doubt, whose candor and uprightness I will 
heartil}' vouch for. 

"Let men in the refinement of modern civilization declare that suc- 
cess is the test of merit. For me, 1 dare to say for the Confederate side, 
in the language of the Roman poet: 

■Victrix causa Diis placuh 
Sed victa Catoni '" 

(Calls of Underwood! Underwood! Underwood!) 
Col. Turner: "If the audience will wait just one moment until the 
last regular toast is responded to, Gen. Underwood, I have no doubt, will 
be glad to respond to the request to hear from him. 

"The ne.xt regular toast upon the list is 'The Individualism of the 
American Soldier.' It is to be responded to by one whom I admire 
and love, one of ni)' old friends, who was personally very close to that 
great southern soldier. Gen. Jackson, whom he served as staff officer 
during the war — Maj-Gen. Henry Kyd Douglas." 



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MAJ-GEN. HENRY KYD DOUGLAS 

l)f Maryland. 

Gen. Douglas: "MyNnv Friends and Old Enemies — (Applause.) I 
have lived long enough to be here, thank God ! (Applause.) There is a 
special individuality in the /\merican soldier, or we would not be here 
to night. That special individuality has announced itself in the pro- 
ceedings of to-da}- and for to-morrow in such a way as is not possible in 
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BIOGRAPHIC: 

Henry Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown. Md., was born in Shepherdstown, Va.; educated at Franklin and Marshall College 
Enlisted in the Confederate States arjny, IS private in Second regiment infantry, Virginia volunteers. 1861: promoted lieutenant 

and captain Company B, and served as assistant inspector-general of the Stonewall Brigade; A. D. C. A. I. G.,and 

A. A. A. G , to Lieut.-Gen. Thos. J. lackson in 1862. Chief of staff to Maj.-Gen. Edward Johnson, May. 1863. 
Major and A. A. G., June 3. 1803; A. A. G. of Stonewall division: A. A. G. and chief of staff to Maj.-Gen. John B. Gordon, and 

subsequently to Lieut.-Gen. Jubal A Early, May 20. 1864. 
Colonel Thirteenth and Forty-ninth Virginia regiments (consolidated), and assigned in 1865 tocommand the Light Brigade, the 

Confederate troops that fired the last volleys at Appomattox. 
Colonel First regiment infantry, state troops, Maryland, in i88i. 
Judge Fifth judicial circuit. State of Maryland. 1891. .adjutant-general of Marylaiiil, 1893 



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(Applause and cheers.) To-morrow we achieve the E^reatest iiiiHtary victory 
of civihzation. (Cheers.) There is but one city in this country that is 
brave enough to have that done, and that is the City of Chicago. 
(Tremendous cheering and applause. ) In war we reached no farther 
than Gett}^sburg, in peace we have captured the northern metropolis of 
this great nation. (Cheers.) 

" I came to speak to you as a southerner, with no explanations to 
make and no apologies to give to any human being because I wore the 
Confederate gray and followed the southern cross. ( Applause. ) I come, 
knowing that I can speak to soldiers who know that the greatest military 
honor that they could ever have achieved is to have conquered the army 
that was commanded by Lee — the soldiers that followed Stonewall 
Jackson. (Great applause and cheers.) 

"Marc Anthony said: 'We came to bury Cesar, not to praise him.' 
You have buried these dead for us, and we come here to thank you and 
to tell you of the heroism they exhibited when living. And we dare say 
it here. There are, perhaps, those to-night in this land who are narrow 
enough to shake their heads with disapproval and raise their voices with 
dissent because of the proceedings tliat are to take place to-morrow. 
Perhaps in the south — doubtless in tlie south — we have men who, if 30U 
came to perform such a deed over your dead, might speak with bitter- 
ness, but, so help the names of the Lees and the Hamptons and the 
Butlers, we would crush them with the strong frown of American free- 
men — with the hand of the southern soldier. (Cheers. ) 

"There are those in some distant state, probably, whose names you 
and I have never heard, who disapprove of the grand sympathy of these 
people for our dead. I remember reading that he who burned the 
temple of Diana at Ephesus was proud of achieving that unholy 
immortality, and these men who wish to distinguish themselves b}' 
opposition to this act of sympathy are men who never distinguished 
themselves when the ranks were rolled in vapor and the flag of the 
Union was dragged in the blood and the dust in the valley of Virginia. 
(Applause. ) 

" That man never died in any cause who should not have been buried. 
Those people dishonor themselves who do not honor those who lived 
among them. We of the south do not forget our heroes, and when you 
come among us to bury your dead, we will strip our rosebushes of their 
flowers and drop one upon the grave of the Confederate and another 
upon the grave of him who wore the blue. (Applause.) 

"I want to speak plainh' to you, because I have a right to do it. 
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generals, and since the war have served upon the staff of five distin- 
guished Union officers. (Applause.) The only time that McClellan ever 
visited Antietam after the war he came as my guest, and when Hartranft, 
of Pennsylvania, died, it was not a Union soldier, but myself, that was 
asked to pronounce the eulogy of the Third Pennsylvania division over 
his grave. I stood at the open grave of McClellan, by the side of 
Hancock and Joe Johnston, both now dead. I received a message from 
the dying bed of Hancock. 1 have delivered more addresses before the 
Grand Army of the I^epublic of the north than any Union soldier has 
ever spoken in the south, and therefore 1 have a right to talk to your 
people. (Applause.) I have served since the war with McClellan and 
Hancock and Slocum and Ayers and Hartranft, and twice have I been 
asked to be present and speak at the memorial services on the birthday 
of your greatest leader, Gen. Grant. (Applause. ) 

"I remember now, I must speak of the 'Individualism of the Sol- 
dier,' and I will be done in one moment. During the war my father's 
home was on the banks of the Potomac. The troops under which 1 
served were on the Virginia side. I stood upon the cliffs of the Potomac 
and looked over the field to where my father walked in his garden, and 
I dared not speak to him. I saw 500 Union cavalrymen along the banks, 
and when I raised my hat thej' asked me to come and meet them. I got 
into a skiff with a courier and met them in the middle of the river. They 
took me over to their side; I was not afraid of them; they were soldiers; 
they were not politicians. (Applause.) Five hundred of them gathered 
around me, and when I said I wished to see my mother and my sister, 
as I stood in their midst, one of them said; 'You shall do it; damn a 
government that can be destroyed by a man seeing his mother.' I saw 
them that day, and these brave Union soldiers, when my mother 
approached me, moved off 100 yards and stood along the banks while I was 
holding sacred communion with her. And then they put me in my skiff 
and sent me back to Virginia, although they knew perfectly well who I 
was and where I was going. That was an act of the individual soldier 
of America, and you are going to repeat that act to-morrow, when for the 
first time in a northern state, upon Union soil, in the state consecrated 
by the memor\' of Lincoln and of Grant, you people here are going to 
unite with us in dedicating and consecrating and making sacred the dust 
under which 6,000 Confederate soldiers lie. ( Ajiplause. ) That is the 
individuality of the American soldier, and nothing higher and grander 
than that can occur. I say in the language of your great leader, 'Let us 
have peace,' and may we all dwell together in unity until the time comes 
when you and I and all of us, in the language of my own great leader. 



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shall 'cross over the river and rest under the shatle of the trees.''' 
(Great applause. ) 

Col. Turner: "1 take great pleasure in presenting to this audience a 
man who, from my own personal knowledge, has done more to make this 
occasion possible than any other one man — Gen. John C. Underwood." 




M.AJ-GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD. 

Ol Kentucky. 

Gen. Underwood: "J//-, l^uist master and Fellow Citizens— I did not 
intend to utter a word to-night. This is the culmination of a twenty 
years' thought, and for the past four )ears in this cit}' a constant work. 
Coming here in 1890 and grasping the broad thoughts and liberal actions 
of these people in this great northwestern city of our country, I said 
to myself that the reason I had failed to bring about a success in the 
same movement, which I had attempted in other sections of the United 
States, was because I had mistaken the place, and that the harmonizing 
demonstration was possible in Chicago while it failed in Philadelphia. 
That the movement for reuniting the formerly belligerent sections was 
possible with the people here, though it had failed elsewhere, and that 
I would try it again. Then, beginning with the small amount of monej' 
that had been raised by The ex-Confederate Association, through the 
citizens of Chicago attending a lecture delivered by Gen. John B. 
Gordon, and with that fund, turned over to me by the said association as 
a nucleus upon which to build, I asked the citizens of this great 
metropolis to help erect a tribute to the memory of the men who made 
the generals, the eonunon soldiers, lying under the sod in Oakwoods 
cemetery. These men who died, because of the hardships in prison life 
and their inability to endure the climate (coming as they did from a 
warm section of the country ), without any expectation of receiving rewards 
because of high office and renown, thereby demonstrating to the man 
liberal in his thoughts and just in his actions, that they possessed within 
them a fortitude and bravery that any class could honor. I asked 
the good people of Chicago to contribute, with the idea of enhancing 
friendly interest throughout the land, and to bring back that old feeling 
which we had before the war, that recognized every section of the 
country as co-equal, and placed all the states upon such terms of 
friendl}' intercourse that the Nation as a whole grew and prospered. 
Such was mv hobln* and philanthropic theme for twenty years, and 
although it had been a faihu'e, to my cost of man\- thousands of 




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dollars on two other occasions, yet when I found the citizens of Chicago 
made such a thing possible, I carried it on year by year until all 
fully ■ recognized the situation. They thought of the 6,000 mortals 
that were buried three times underneath their sod, carried twice 
across the citj' and finally interred in the government lot purchased 
specially for them, the largest body of common soldier)', or, in 
fact, any soldiery buried in one limited place throughout the entire 
country, here in their midst. Recognizing that fact, and knowing from 
the pulsation of the people that it was a possibilit\- here, I have gone 
forward, carefully, consistently and persistently, until it has culminated 
in this deed of Chicago which will cause it to be heralded throughout all 
time to come as the city that inaugurated the act bringing the south and 
north together as it was before the war. (Applause.) 

'■ It is not the question of what kind of money you want to-day, gold 
or silver, one or the other, or both, but the real vital problem to be 
solved is how to make something out of nothing, to enrich the land, and 
to do that successfuU)'. Whether the movement is started by Chicago or 
b)' any other city or section, it should be to redevelop that portion of the 
south that needs assistance and requires the capital that can be easily 
furnished and which should be done in confidence by the north, for 
through combining the possibilities of the sun and the soil of the south- 
land through culture, stimulated and enabled by the wealth of the north, 
the southern country can be made to prosper as it did forty years ago. 

"I came from a slave state; my father a slave owner, afterward, 
when a colleague of Mr. Clay in the United States Senate, jointly 
agreed with him to emancipate their slaves, freed and sent them 
to Liberia. I went against my family, was the only man by my name 
from Kentucky who entered the southern army. I spent half of m\ war 
period in northern prisons; therefore, I can appreciate how the soldiers 
whose memory we honor felt when they heroically served on the shores 
of Lake Michigan in the stockades here, and sacrificed their lives for a 
cause they thought honorable and just. Siuh fortitude is a monument to 
any nation and a tribute to any cause: and now, thirty years after that 
time, upon the principle of the 'Wars of the Roses,' in England, or of 
the Eagles and Lilies, in France, why should we not look on one side as 
having made an honorable record, and on the other as achieving a glorious 
victory? I say, sir, it takes all the contingents of this country to make 
the whole people, and that a cit\- in any section thereof which recognizes 
that fact is ,i,'rri7/ in every sense of that term (Applause. ) 

'•My lifr has been molded in a large degree upon the recollection of 
a friendship tliat was worked out in the actual thrill and pressure of war. 




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I had a difficulty when a boy with a schoohiiate. and at the beginnint; of 
hostilities he enlisted in the army of the north, and I espoused the cause 
of the south. When Gen. Bragg entered Kentucky from Tennessee, 
the summer of 1862, I went to see my sister, living near Dechard, 
Tenn., and by accident met a United States wagon train, escorted by a 
squadron of Federal cavalry, in a long lane formed by lines of ' staked and 
ridered' rail fences on each side, and, consequently, impossible for my 
horse to jump the fence to make a run for the foothills of the Cumber- 
land mountains, or to get out of the lane in any way. I wore what was 
known as a Kentucky gray hunting-shirt — I do not know that any one 
present has ever seen one — and having an old black citizen's overcoat 
behind my saddle, I pulled it up and buttoned it across my breast, so 
that it hung loosely over my shoulders. I hid the bright buckle of my 
pistol-belt by holding my hand over it, and when I got near enough to 
recognize the features of the soldiers whom I was meeting in the road, the 
first man in the front of the vanguard that was approaching me was the 
self-same enemy of my youth, ami to whom I had neither spoken, nor he to 
me, for fifteen years. I would not have given a snap of my finger for my 
life; and while imagining that I would grace one of the trees near by within 
a few minutes, I determined, if I had to go to the bar of judgment that day, 
I would send my enemy to the other world before I went, and undoubt- 
edly showed the tire that I felt within, as 1 met and never took my eye off 
of my supposed enemy, but when 1 rode up along by him, although he 
looked straight forward between the ears of his horse and avoideil open 
recognition, I intuitively felt that he knew me. and upon reaching his side 
he said in an undertone — the first words spoken for fifteen years: ' .\11 
right, John.' He was a Federal soldier. I a Confederate, and he knew 
it. I was a possible spy (though not one». because I could not have 
proven otherwise had I been arrested and tried by a drum-head court- 
martial, for when an army is on a retreat there is no great deal of inves- 
tigation as to whether a suspectetl prisoner is a spy or not. Anyway, f 
fully realized my situation, and regarded my non-identification b}- my im- 
agined personal enemy as a real act of friendship in life. That man 
went on to Iventucky. and was killed in the battle of Perryville — reported 
to have been shot in two by a cannon ball. I do not know for certain the 
particulars of his death, but I speak here to-night in acknowledgment 
of his heroism, and assert, that I would cheerfully give this right arm 
to bring him back to life again. (Applause). Such was true friendship, 
and that is the principle upon which this monument was builded; it was 
the prompting on which the Chicago people were asked to contribute 
toward its erection, not because of an\ thing living, but for the heroism 




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of the dead. And the broad heart of hberal Chicago, the superb metrop- 
olis of the great northwest, philanthropically beating, makes possible 
through the glorious culmination in free expression of all the feelings of 
friendship and fraternity, so richly portrayed here to-night, the reunion 
of the formerly belligerent sections. Long live a reunited people and 
an undivided country." (Prolonged applause.) 

Col. Turner: "There was on the program to-night a response from 
a Union officer who is greatly respected among us and greatly loved, a 
man who was the personal friend of our dead secretary of state, to whom 
were spoken the last words, the last order which Gen. Gresham ever 
gave as a military officer. Judge Tuthill writes this letter to explain his 
non-appearance:" 

JUDGE RICHARD S. TUTHILL, 

Of Chicatjn. 



(Letter ) 

^'■Genllnnen: The death of \x\y dear friend and companion in arms, 
Walter Q. Gresham, and a call to attend a memorial meeting in his 
honor to-night, at which arrangements for his funeral to-morrow will be 
made, will, I much regret to say, deprive me of the anticipated pleasure 
of being at the banquet given to visiting officers of the Union and Con- 
federate armies. 

"My heart and desires are and always have been for burying all the 
bitterness which was engendered by the war in a grave deeper and more 
silent than are those where rest the heroes of both sides who fell in the 
great struggle. The men of the north and the men of the south claim a 
common heritage of colonial history. Alike they fought under Washing- 
ton to establish on American soil, government by the people. They are, 
by all the ties that can bind men one to another, brothers. Such may 
they ever remain. 

"I propose as a sentiment for the toast to which I expected to 
respond to to-night, this : 

■'The battlefields, the rifle pits, the earthworks, where a quarter of 
a century ago heroic men, our brothers all, fought with a valor which 
lias not been surpassed in any age or land, and, actuated alone by high 
and sacred convictions of duty, nobly sacrificed their lives therefor, were 
soon by kindly nature hidden from sight with a covering of tender grass 
and flowers and shrubs. Shall not the same Providence which causes 
the grass to grow and the flowers to bloom upon soil once drenched with 
fraternal blood, in like manner cover, as with a mantle of forgetfulness, all 




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the evil passions of the war, its trials, its hardships and its terrors? Thus 
alone can it be possible that that true reconciliation, indispensable to a 
real union, shall be accomplished, when ever\' man who lives under the 
star spangled banner, the priceless gift of a common ancestry, shall feel 
in the inmost recesses of his heart fraternal regard for all of his fellow- 
citizens. Let us forget that we ever differed and hereafter vie with each 
other only as to who shall do most to promote ttie welfare and glory of 
our common country. Very respectfully, 

••RlCH.^KI) S. TlTHILI.." 

(Great applause greeted the reading of this letter. ) 
The toastmaster then introduced Gen. Harry Heth, who spoke as 
follows : 



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MAJ.-GEN. HENRY HETH, 

Of Virginia. 



Gen. Heth: ••! will not go into the history of Gettysburg, but 1 
will tell \'ou something that may be of interest to you, that I do not 
think has ever been stated liefore, certainly not in public, and it ref<-rs to 
your distinguished commander. Gen. Grant. 

" In 1852 Gen. Grant and myself happened to be in St. Louis 
together. He had nothing to do there; he came on to bring his wife 
home, who at that time gave birth to their son, Fred. We liad nothing 
in particular to do and we were together during the day. played billiards 
together, rolled ten-pins and took drinks. I had to go down to the 
barracks on some business to see the commanding officer of the depart- 
ment, and I missed the stage that went down at loioo o'clock, and I met 
Grant and told him my misfortune. He said, ' Oh, that makes no 
difference; I will drive you down with my fast horse that 1 brought ilown 
from Detroit.' I said. 'All right; \'ou dine with me at the Planters' 
House; have your buggy there at 3:00 o'clock and we will drive down 
together.' We did so. I went out and looked at this pony that he had 
there, and I commenced to ridicule it, and he said, '(jet in and 1 will 
show you how she will go after we get outside of the city limits." 1 
still continued teasing him after we got into the buggy and he said, 'Well, 
I will show 30U how she will go after we get outside of the city limits.' I 
made him mad and he pulled on the reins; the thing was going along at a 
jogtrot, he hit it with a whip and it broke into a rack or pace, and it went 
down the street like a streak of lightning; we had to turn an angle in 
the street, and it ran into a cow. and Grant was thrown out and struck 
the curbstone with his shoulders; I was thrown between two baskets of 
cranberries, which broke my fall: Grant was knocked insensible, was 
taken up by the people and taken into an apothecary establishment, laid 




MAJ.-GEN. HENRY HETH. 

UUKING THE SIXTIES. 




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May 29 June 2, 1S95 




BIOGRAPHIC: 

Henry Heth of Washington, D. C. was born at Black Heath, Chestertield county. Va.. December 16. 1825; graduated at United 

States Military Academy in July, 1^47. 
Commissioned in L'liited States army: — 

Brevet second lieutenant, First infantry, July i. 1^47: second lieutenant, Sixth infantry, September 22, 1847. 

First lieutenant, June g, 1853; regimental quartermaster. November 24. 1S54. 

Captain, Tenth infantry. March 3, 1855; served in war with Mexico and on frontier. 

Resigned commission in United States army. April 18, ]8f>i. 
Commissioned in Confederate States army:— 

Major, corps of infantry, C. S A., to rank from March lO, 1S61; colonel. Forty-6fth Virginia infantry, July 17. 1S61. 

Brigadier-general, P. A C. S.. January 6. 1862; major-general, P. A. C. S., May 24, iHf)3. 

Commanded departnjent of West Virginia in 1S62; with Gen. Kirby Smith in Kentucky and Tennessee fall of 1862; 
participated in battle of Chancellorsville and subsequent battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia to 
Appomattox, April g, 1S65. 

Member of board of Antietam battletield conmiission, i8{)5 



on the cDunttr. nilibecl and bi"Ou.!;ht to. Sonicbodv caught th 



and hrougiil liack the buggy. The shaft was broken and the harness 
also. After he recovered, I said. • Well, we must abandon our trip; we 
cannot carry it out.' He said. ' No, the ordnance department is just a 
few hundred yartls below here; we will go down and ha\e the bnggy 
repaired, and then we will go down to the barracks." That was done, wt' 
went to the barracks, and I transacted my business 

"The next time I met Gen. (irant was at Appomatto.x. (ieu. Lee 
sent me up to his headquarters on some business. He was ver)' glad to 
see me. took me bv the hand, asked me to come into a room, and we 
had a talk, and he said; 'Heth, do von remember when we were last 
together?' I said: 'Yes, at St. Louis.' He said: 'Do you remember 
how near I came to breaking your neck and mine?' I said: -Grant, it 
would have made ver}' little difference if you had broken my neck, but I 
have wished, old man, a thousand times that you had broken yours.' 
'Well.' he said, 'Do you remember anything special that occurred 
down there when we were at the barracks?' I said: 'No.' ■ Well, says 
he, 'Do you remember who was there?' 'Yes,' I said, 'Hancock was 
there. McDowell was there, Bragg was there. Gen. Clark was there, 
whom I went down to see.' -Well,' said he, -do \o\\ recollect anything 
that occurred there?' I said: 'No. 1 do not.' ' Well,' says he, 'I do. 
Not one of those fellows asked us to take a drink.' 'Well,' says I, 
'Grant, that reminds me of the fact that you have not asked me to take 
a drink now.' ■W'ell.' says he, 'have you got a courier here?' I said; 
'Yes.' Well,' said he, 'leave him here, and when you get to your tent 
you will finil plenty to drink there.' which I did." 

Gen. Butler: "How much?" 

Gen. Heth; '■ Two gallons." 

"Now, I will tell \ou another little instance of another general, a 
friend of mine. 1 was a guest of Gen. Burnside, in Washington. He 
was very much depressed, as he had lost his wife, and he would sit up 
till 2:00 o'clock at night attending to his committee work. Then he 
would see something, apparentl}', that reminded him of his dead wife, 
and he would break down, throw himself on his sofa, and throw his 
arms around me, and I tried to console him in every way. This con- 
tinued for some time, and finally' he got up one night and he said: 
'Heth, what we want is a dinner party.' I said: 'That is just what we 
want.' He said; • How are you getting along with Grant and Sherman 
and all those fellows?' Said 1: 'Just as well as before the war.' 
And so we gave a dinner party, and we sat down. Gen. Grant tlid not 
come, but Sherman did, and all the old fellows, and 1 think there 
were some twelve or fourteen at the dinner party. We sat down at 
7:00 o'clock and got up at 3:00 o'clock. And they talked over all the wars 





MAJ.-GEN. S. G. FRENCH, 

DUKING THE SIXTIKS. 





May 29- June 2, i>^«)3 



BIOGRAPHIC: 



Samuel G. French was born in New Jersey, November 22, iSrS; graduated at United States Military Ac;idemy, in July, 1S43. 
Commissioned in United States army:— 

Brevet second lieutenant July i, 1843; second lieutenant Third regiment artillery, August n, 1S46. 

First lieutenant March 3. 1847; captain, assistant quartermaster. January 12, 1848. 

Brevetted first lieutenant for gallant service at Monterey, Mexico. September 23. 1846. 

Brevetted captain for distinguished service at Buena Vista, Mexico. February 23, 1847. Resigned his commission 
in United States army April. 1856. 
Commissioned in Confederate States army:— 

Lieutenant-colonel and chief of ordnance, Mississippi state troops, February 12. 1861. 

Major, corps uf artillery. C. S. A.. April 2, iSfii; brigadier-general. P. A. C. S., October 23. 1861. 

Major-general, P. A. C. S., August 31, 1862; served in the western army and specially distinguished himself at Kennesaw 
mountain. 
Cotton planter, Greenville, Miss., 1856-79: afterward engaged in orange culture Florida. Resides at Winter Park, Fla. 



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that the}- had ever been iiii;at;c(i in — the Florida war. the Mexican war, 
and then our war, the Civil war. I was sitting at the left of Gen. Sher- 
man. Something was said, and he said: ■ Heth. hut you damned reliels 
did so and so.' 'Well,' said 1. 'stop, Sherman. I think if tliere are 
two men that should go down on tlieir knees and thank the Almighty fur 
raising up the rebels, those two men are Grant and yourself. If it had 
not been for the rebels you would have been teaching school yet in llie 
swamps of Louisiana, and Grant woukl be tanning leather at Galena." 
The toastmaster then introducetl Gen. French, who spoke as follows: 




MAJ.-GEN. SAMUEL G. FRENCH, 

Of Florida. 

Cien. French: -'The distinguished guests who have addressed \ on 
this evening have expressed thanks to you gentlemen who represent this 
great city, for the hospitality tliat its people have shown us, and yet I 
am quite sure the}' will pardon me if I say the\- have fallen short of 
expressing it in such measured terms as it truly merits. Perhaps the 
highest exhibition of hospitality is tliat where the host makes the guests 
the masters of his house, and this is the measure of the hospitality that 
lias been extended to us. 

" I remember at early dawn, tlie morning after the battle at Franklin, 
Tenn., I climbed over the Federal Hue of works and found therein, 
among the dead, six or seven soldiers lying side b}- side, wounded and 
unable to rise, protecting themselves from the cold by a blanket drawn 
over them. Three or four of them were Missourians from my division, 
and the others were Federal soldiers. 1 had with me a flask of whisk}' 
and I said to them, • Boys, here is some whisky for }'ou, but 1 insist 
that you who drink first shall be moderate so that the last man shall have 
some.' They all promised that the}' would do so, and there was plent}' 
for the last man. 

'• And now 1 declare unto }'ou that, from the morning of that sad da}' 
to this evening of festivity, it has never once before occurred to me that 1 
was then ministering to the sufferings of a fallen foe. I numbered them all 
alike, unconsciously, as friends. If then, prompted onl}' by the dictates 
of common humanity, the living soldier finds relief, surely to-morrow the 
dead will have their ashes respected and committed to your care. 

"Your actions in regard to the remains of those prisoners have been 
inspired by a svmpath\' awakened by an advanced knowledge, intensified 
by a higher and progressive civilization, and it places you on an elevated 
plane of broad humanity from which you can securely look down on the 
petty hates of those below, and pour oil on the bitter w aters of strife 
and still the vet rippling waves: and in doing this work of peace it will 





Miiy 29-3:. 1S95. 



HIOGRAPHIC: 

William Lowndes Calhoun, a descendant of the South Carolina family, was born at Decatur. Ga.. November 21, 1837; was 
educated in the private schools of Decatur and Atlanta. Ga.. studied law and became a prominent attorney. 

Mayor of Atlanta, two years representative in tlie Georgia legislature, four years; and judge of the "Court of Oidinary and 
Probate" of Atlanta for the past fifteen years, which position he at present holds. 

Captain in the Confederate army; he served in the south and west nearly the entire war period and was severely wounded in the 
battle of Resaca.Ga.; and, since the war. became lieutenant-colonel commanding Fourth battalion of infantry, Georgia 
volunteers. 

President of the Confederate Veteran Association of Atlanta, member of the Davis monument ctunmittee and judge advocate- 
general of tbe Department East of the Mississippi River. I'. C. \". 




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be told as a memorial of you. as oft as of the woman who poured the 
box of precious ointment on the head of the sjreat Galilean. 

" .\ harmonious union of our people may change the destiny of the 
world; and \()u may awake some morning to find your names written by 
an angelic hand as high on the roll of those deserving heavenly favor, 
as was the name of Abou Ben Adhem, written by an angel, because 'he 
loved his fellow men.'" (Applause.) 

(Calls for Calhoun.) 

JUDGE W. I.. CALHOUN. 

Ot -\tlant.i, Ga. 

Judge Calhoun: '• Gfii/h'tin-ii — It is entirely too late to speak to you 
to-night. I onh' wish to make one remark, and that is, that we desire 
to invite you of Chicago to come down to our e.xposition, which our 
people saj- will be much larger than the Columbian exposition. (Laughter.) 

••Just a word, gentlemen. I desire on behalf of the city I represent, 
and the State of Georgia, to reciprocate most heartil)' the sentiments 
which have been expressed. I thank God that this prevails everywhere 
over this countr\'. and that we come now to look upon the achievements 
of the soldiers of the north and of the south as the common heritage and 
common glory of the American people. I regard it as an event of the 
nineteenth centurx', that here upon northern soil a monument to Con- 
federate dead should be dedicated. It expresses and is the intlication 
of a feeling that I believe now prevails throughout all this country, that 
the war is at an end, and that we have but one country and one govern- 
ment. I see all around me to-night the flag of the United States. I 
have no hate in my heart for that flag. It was established by the heroism 
of the soldiers of the north and the south, and I assert to-night, that if 
the day should ever come, when either from within or without this gov- 
ernment should be threatened, thev will stand together, shoulder to 
shoulder and arm to arm. to aid in defending and preserving it forever." 
(Applause. ) 

Col. Turner: "All good things must come to an end. It is now 
12:00 o'clock, and all these people have to go down to the cemetery 
early in the morning. I want to say that I believe that all will join with 
me in feeling that we are glad to have stood sponsors to the birth of a 
new era. Rev. Jenkin Llo\d Jones will pronounce a benediction.'' 

REV. JENKIN LLOYD JONES. 

Pastor nf .Ml Souls' Church. Chicago. 

Rev. Mr. Jones: "Into the glory of the greater future, into the peace 
born out of heroism, into the hope that grows out of struggle and trial, 




PRIVATE JENKIN LLOYD JONES. 

DURING THE SIXTIKS. 






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Mav 29-31. 1S95 
lilOGRAPHIC: 

Jenkin Lloyd Jones was born at Llandyssul. Wales. November 14, 1843; his pareiiis immigrated to America when he was a year 

old. and sen ltd in the backwoods of Wisconsin. 
Enlisted in the Sixth Wisconsin battery, Augu^^t 14. 1863; served as a private throughout the war in the western army under Gens. 

Grant. Sherman, and otlier commanders; took pari in the battles of Corinth, Oxford. Fort Gibson. Raymond. Jackson. 

Champion Hills. Missionary Ridge, the sieges of Vicksburg, Chattanooga. Atlanta, and defense of Nashville. 
After the war, worked on farm and taught school; studied four years at Theological school, Meadville, Pa.; ordained to the 

ministry lune, i8;o; secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference for ten years; organized All Souls (Independent) 

church. Cliicago. in 1SS2, over wliich he still presides; is and has been managing editor of The .\>w Unity for eighteen 

years; secretary of the general committee on the Parliament of Religions, and is general secretary of the American 

Congress of Liberal Religious Societies. 



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we would enter. Oh, thou Iiitinite Father. m,i>- we so live that we may 
hasten the glad time that is to come, when the battle ilrum beats no longer 
and the flags of war are furled, in the federation of man, in tlie parlia- 
ment of peace, the brotherhood of man. the round world over, Amen." 

Pertinent to the actions of Rev. J. L. Jones is the following letter: 
Gen. John C. Underivood, U. C. W, Palmer Hoksc, Cliicago, May 2j, 181.)=, : 

"Dear Sir and Broihkk — 1 have tried to find you that I might tell 
you in person, that I find myself in closest fellowship with you and all 
others who fain would conserve the memory of the brave and do honor 
to the valiant, wliatever the verdict of history may be upon their efforts. 
I want to say to you further that 1 consider your efforts to honor your 
fellow comrades not only perfectly legitimate but most commendable and 
honorable, and as one who served as a private on the other side from 3'ou, 
who met vou and yours many times in tlie hot contest, I want to endorse 
the project of dedicating on Decoration Day next the monument reared 
in honor of the Confederate prisoners whose bones rest in OaV;woods 
cemetery. Tlieir death was a most pathetic witness to the sincerity of 
their purpose, and it after thirty years the representatives of the contend- 
ing armies can clasp hands over their humble graves, they certainly have 
not died in vain. The outcome of the bitter warfare has been worthy 
the sacrifice, if now we can clasp loving hands across what was once a 
bloody chasm, but which chasm is now grass-grown and flower-garlanded. 
The angel of history has made many things plain now, that were ambigu- 
ous then. In the growing perspective of history things have grown clear 
that once were obscure, but in all these revealments nothing has become 
more clear than that not methods l)ut motives, not what we accomplish but 
the spirit in which we seek to accomplish, measures the worth of a man. 

"Please do not interpret this letter as any intrusion upon your time 
or your proceedings. I shall be pleased to take a silent place with you 
on the 30th, that I nia\' thus testify by my presence rather than by any 
word of mine to the fellowship I bear in my heart for you. There are 
others whose voices will be more welcome, more fitting than mine and 
who have far greater right to be heard, but I will gladl}' join in your 
dedication exercises by my presence. 

"I know nothing of the details of your program. It has occurred to 
me that if any portion of your procession sliould be mounted, I have a 
good saddle horse which I will be pleased to place at the disposal of any 
member of your staff or will be pleased to ride her myself in such a pro- 
cession. I will be glad to know your wishes in this matter. 

"Allow me to subscribe myself as one who was once a sincere foe Init 
never a personal enemy, now your cordial fellow citizen and brother man. 

"JeNKIN LlOVIi JON'KS." 



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STAFF OF THE DIVISION OF THE NORTHWEST U. C. V 

Page 2, MAJ,-(".KN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD, Coinuiaiiiiiiii! Division. 
ROSTER OF STAFF. 



No. I 

No. 2 

No. 3. 

No. 4 

No. 5 

No. b. 

No. 7, 



COL. S.\ML'EL BAKhR, Chief of Staff. 
LIEl'T.-COL GEO. FORRESTER, .\iljiHanl-General. 
LIEUT.-COL. R. LEE FRANCE. Inspector-GeneraL 
LIEUT.-COL JERF; S. WHITE. (,>uarleriiiaster-GeneraL 
LIEUT.-COL. JOHN W. WHITE. Cominissai y-General. 
MAJ. BKNJ- F. JENKINS, Aid-de-Camp. 
MA]. CHAS R, TUCKER, Aid-de-Cainp. 
CAPT. WILLIA.M 13. PHIPPS, Banneret. 



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THE DIXISIOX STAFF. 

The officers constituting; tliis staff rendered efficient and valuable 
service, fully appreciated by the commander, and for which he hereby 
makes due acknowledgment and extends both official and personal thanks. 

BIOGRAPHIC SYNOPSIS OF THE ST.\FF. 

GEORGE FORRESTER of Chicago, a Kentiickian. at the coniinencenient of the war was 
publishing a newspaper in Maysville. Ky., when he was arrested and confined for several months in Fort 
Lafayette. N. Y., in 1S61. On being released he immediately went south and joined the Third Kentucky 
cavairy of Gen. John H. Morgan's command. C. S. A., rose to the rank of captain and followed that 
intrepid leader throughont his dashing career. He was severely wounded in the fight at VVoodl)utn 
Station. Ky.. and upon lecovery returned to his command, and finally surrendered at Augusta, Ga., in 
May. 1B65. He engaged in planting in Alabama until 186^. then moved to Chicago, and has been 
employed there ever since in mercantile pursuits, at piesent being with Sprague, Warner & Co. He 
was the first president of The ex-Confederate -Association of Chicago and was re-elected to a second term. 

ROBERT LFE FR.\NCE of Chicago, was born in Washington. D. C. moved to Baltimore, and, 
running the blockade in ihGz. went south and joined French's battery of Viiginia artillery, C. S, .\.\ was 
at the capture of Harper's Ferry, his battery firing the last gun and shot i hat killed Gen. D, H. Miles, 
commanding the Federal forces. He was appointed sergeant of the battery and atterward ordnance 
sergeant to Col. Alexander, chief of artillery of Longstreet's corps, and engaged in the battles of 
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and all the operations ot the Army of Northern \'irginia to 
Petersburg; when, upon application, he was transferred to the "Maryland Line." ultimately became a 
member of Col. Mosby's command, and, being captured by Merritt's ca\alry was first confined in the 
old Capitol prison, Washington City, and afterward in the military prison at Elmira. N. V., where he 
was paroled in March, 1S65, and, returning to Virginia, reached Richmond two weeks before the surrender 
of Lee's army at Appomattox. He remained some time in \'irginia, and then moved to Chicago, 
and is there at present engaged in the coal business. 

JERE S. WHITE of Chicago, was born near .Aberdeen. Miss., moved to LaGrange. Tenn., 
entered the military academy, and afterward the college, in 1S60. At the outbreak of the war he went to 
Mobile, Ala . and enlisting in the Gulf City Guards, C. S A., participated in the capture of the ^hip 
Danube ott Fort Morgan. Mobile bay. He was commissioned a special courier in the secret service, 
C S. A., by Secretary of War Walker, and was sent with dispatches to various military commanders in 
Arkansas, and operated later in north Mississippi and west Tennessee, and in the delivery of the same 
and discharge of the various hazardous duties of such special service, he constantly encountered 
difticuUies. dangers, and experienced many hardships. He crossed and re-crossed the Mississippi river 
several times, traversed the marshes and swamps of that river and various bayou bottoms, and had 
many hair-breadth escapes. He finally surrendered with Gen. Forrest in May, 1S65, and, going to New 
Orleans, engaged in mercantile pursuits until iSjy. when he moved to Chicago; was employed 
commercially, and is now in the general commission business. 

JOHN W. WHITE of Chicago, was born in Richmond. Va., and educated in Washington. D. C, 
whence he went south at the beginning of the war and enlisted in the Seventh regiment infantry. 
Georgia volunteers. C. S. A., May. 1S61; was transferred to the First Virginia cavalry. February. 1862, 
and participated in every battle fought by the Army of Northern Virginia, from Blackburn's Ford to 
Chanceltorsville. when he joined Col. Mosby's Forty-iiiird Virginia battalion and remained with that 
command until its disbandnient after the surrender. He was captured during Gen. Early's invasion of 
Maryland in July. 1^64. and confined for about three months in the old Capitol prison at Washington 
City, when he was exchanged. He moved to Chicaao in 1S66, and has been ever since engaged in 
transportation and commercial business, and is now the manager of Jevne A: Co. He is a past 
president of The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago, which position he filled a second term. 

BENJAMIN F. JENKINS of Chicago, was born in Richmond. Va,, enlisted at Asheville, N. C , in 
the "Buncombe Rifles." afterward Company E First regiment infantry. North Carolina volunteers, 
C. S. A., in April. iS6i. and commenced his first service with that command on the \'irginia peninsula. 
Upon the expiration of the term of service of his regiment, he joined Company K Third \'irginia 
cavalry, and served in that command to the close of the war. He was engaged in all the pitched battles 
of the Army of Northern Virginia frotn the beginning to the surrender at Appomattox, and was severely 
wounded four times, having been shot through the body at Gettysburg, bm was never a prisoner. After 
the war he engaged in mining phosphates in South Carolina for a year, then as a traveling salesman for 
New York and Chicago houses, about twenty-two years, and is at present cashier of the Illinois state 
grain inspection department in Chicago. 

CHARLES R. TL'CKER of Chicago, when a boy 16 years of age. ran away from his home in 
Louisville. Ky.. when that city was occupied by Gen. Buell's army. He crossed over the Ohio river into 
Indiana and walked twenty miles to elude the Federal pickets, then recrossed into Kentucky and finally 
reached and joined Gen. Abe Buford's Confederate command at Frankfort, wheie he was almost 
immediately under fire from Federal cavalry at a skirmish in defense of a bridge over the Kentucky 
river. Having, boy-like, left home without anv kind of preparation, he soon became sick, and on the 
retreat of the Confederates from Lexington, he was honorably dischareed and left in a disabled condition 
at a farmhouse in central Kentucky, and finally reached Louisville. Since the war he has been engaged 
in mercantile pursuits in various cities and at present is in business in Chicago. 

WILLIAM B. PHIPPS of Chicago, was born in Stratford-on-.Avon. England, immigrated to 
America about 1850. returned to England' and again came to the "States" in 1855, purchased property 
and settled in Greenville, N. C, the following year. He enlisted in Company C Forty-fourth regiment 
infantry. North Carolina volunteers. C- S. A.. June. if^62; was in the fights at Newbern, N. C ; Drury's 
Bluff's, Va.. and many of the principal battles of the Army of Northern \'irginia, after Chancellorsville. 
He was color-sergeant of his regiment, was wounded in the battle of * Hatcher's Run" and finally 
captured at Petersburg, taken to and confined in the military prison at Point Lookout. Md He was in 
the Confederate armv three years and never sick or absent from duty. On being released from prison 
in June, 1865. he sold his interests in North Carolina and moved to Chicago, where he has since been 
engaged in mercantile transactions. 




THE M C3 N U M E N T. 




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DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT. 

The monument is erected in the center of an oval plot, with axes 
275 feet and 500 feet, in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago, bought b^' the 
United States government, in which to bury the Camp Douglas military 
prison dead; and was constructed l)y the Southern Granite Compan}' of 
the widely known "Pearl'' granite from its ipiarries at Constitution Hill. 
Ga., which, for closeness of grain, beauty of ti-xture and susceptibility of 
receiving a brilliant and everlasting polish is unsurpassed; and. owing to 
such superlative quality, it is particularly fitted for and has no supc-rior 
in tin- higher class of monumental and art work. 

The memorial is truly a handsome creation of the stoneworkers' art, 
ami presents a dignified and imposing appearance, the correct propor- 
tions being \er)' noticeable in the chaste yet simple design, as follows: 

The lower base or platform is fifteen feet si.x inches square, upon 
which arc laid three other bases; and, on the front of the center one, cut 
in raised and polished letters of bold outlines, are tlie words. "Con- 
federate Dead." The upper base is adorned with a series of rich mould- 
ings and on the front of this stone is placed an enlarged model of the 
well-known Confederate seal, worked in bronze, representing in relief a 
mounted soldier (Gen. Washington) enclosed witliin a wreath, wrought 
by entwining the foliage of products peculiar to the south. 

The "die " of the monument is made of one massive stone, the dimen- 
sions being six feet one inch square, b\' two feet ten inches high; it 
has re-entering angles which are filled with groups of cluster columns 
terminating in richly carved Romanesque caps; on the front is the 
inscription and on the other three sides are placed artistic bronze panels. 

An elaborate piece of masonry, ornamented with a carved wreath on 
each of its four gables, forms the crown to the cap of •■ die ' and completes 
the pedestal, from which as a base, springs the shaft, two feet six 
inches square at bottom and twelve feet in height, surmounted with 
a finelv designed battlemented capital which supports a lironze stiitute 
of a Confetferate foot soldier, eight feet high. 

In addition to the bronze panels, carvings, etc.. cannon balls as 
militar)' emblems in the angles of the second base, greatly add to the 
effect, and while the column is over thirty feet, the total height of the 
monument, including the statue, is nearly forty feet. 

The monument was designed by John C. Underwood, with Louis R. 
Fearn as delineating architect. 





BRONZE STATUE OF CONFEDERATE INFANTRY SOLDIER, 
SURMOUNTING CAPITAL OF COLUMN. 



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THE STATUE. 

The statue is over eight feet high, is tliat ol a Confederate 
infantryman, and every old solilier will recognize the fignre as that of a 
tvpical Confederate as he appeared at the close of the war. He stands 
with folded arms looking down in regret upon the field where hosts of his 
comrades sleep; with travel-stained clothing and shoes worn, he is the 
picture of one who has suffered many hardships and whose defeat has 
been accomplished only after a hitter struggle. He has on the usual 
accoutrements of the soldier, antl his face is typical of southern manhood. 

This statue is true to nature and perfect in detail, even to the 
placing of the trousers within the socks to guard against dust — a com- 
mon practice with Confederate infantry. 

The figure represents the soldier after the surrender, is without mili- 
tary arms, very impressive in its silent dignity, eaS}' and natural in its 
pose and readil}' conveys the story of the past. 

The following epic poem to tin/ deceased and monumented foe, by 
L. M. Ennis, Hist. \'et. Corps h'irst regiment infantr\-, 1. N. G., is 
appropriately quoted: 

VICTORIOUS DEFEATS. 

No chord was lost whose melody 

E're cheered a heart of sorrow; 
No cause was lost when patriots' blood 

Gave pledges to the morrow. 

No principle was ever wrong, 

Tho' oft in life defeated; 
The grandest armii-s men have seen, 

Have from the fiekl retreated. 



The might of power has ever ruled 
In great or lesser measure; 

The pure have died in poverty. 

While vice enjo3'ed the treasure. 

'The battles lost, the battles won," 

No matter which the story; 
The deail have paid their awful price, 
The living gain the glory. 



BRONZE PANELS ON THE PEDESTAL DIE. 




THE CALr. TO AF^MS 




A VETKKANS KKTUKX HOME 




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TTIE PANELS. 

The panel on the east represents the "Call to Arms" at the beginning 
of the Confederac\- and is a very striking scene, one that relates the 
stor^'at a glance. Here is displayed the front of an old style courthouse, 
with the numeral i860 over the door. On one side of the door a 
southern volunteer in uniform is represented, on the other a number of 
persons flocking to the entrance are seen, some of them going in. 
Figures representing men in various conditions of life, the laborer, 
artisan and professional man are depicted as they are hastening from 
their avocations, encouraged by their wives and daughters, to enroll 
themselves beneath the southern battle cross, for the 'xall" has gone 
forth throughout the length and breadth of the south and amid wild and 
sectional enthusiasm all classes rush to the aid of their country. Many 
a grizzled veteran gazing at this sculptured bronze picture in these later 
and quieter days will mentally recall the beginning of the arduous 
struggle, which has no parallel in histor)'. 

The panel on the west represents an extremely pathetic picture. It 
is the return of the soldier to his home. The realism thrown into this 
scene is wonderful. In the foreground of the medallion is an unarmed 
Confederate soldier in rude and picturesque garb, leaning on a hickory 
staff cut on his way returning from the "front," whose attitude reveals 
deep dejection. He is gazing upon a dismantled lo.g cabin and sorrow- 
full)' thinking of the past. The broken tloor lies extended across the 
deserted threshold, part of the roof has ln.'en carried away by a round 
shot, wild ivy has grown up and run over a corner, and the house of liis 
youth is a ruin. Solitude is pictured everywhere, and even the birds 
are seen deserting the desolate surroundings of the soldier's destroyed 
home. Near by lies a discarded cannon and war debris, and the sun, 
slowl)' declining in the west, by its departing rays furnishes an appro- 
priate setting to the picture, and lends completion to the idea sought to 
be expressed by the deft hand of the sculptor, that of a l)lighted hope 
and a ruined substance, portraying the cause that is lost. 

The panel on the south side of the "die" is entitled ''A Soldier's 
Death Dream," and is an allegorical picture, representing a "pri\ate" 
who, having received a mortal wound on the field of liattle, has crawled 
beneath the sheltering branches of a tree to die. The bronze design 
further represents a field earthwork and stockade, with a gun silently 
frowning through an embrazure, and a dead horse lying near ])\. The 



BRONZE AND GRANITE PANELS ON THE PEDESTAL DIE. 









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A S(3LniKRS DEATH DREAM, 




THE INSCRIPTION. 



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moonbeams disclose the ilisinantled fortification, and in the soft halfdiglit 
of the distance a l)attlefield stretches away. Tlie wonderfnl feat of 
working the moonliglit into tiiis scene has lieen done b}' the artist 
witli rare accurac)'. The deathh' stillness of the after-battle picture is 
made more vivid by the drooping Hag anil the night effect produced by 
the pale rays of the waning moon, shining through clouds, and the 
hovering of a vampire bat, as an imaginary ghoul, over the hero remains 
of the dead soldier. 

On the north face the following inscription is worked in incised 
letters upon a polished granite panel: 




Erected to the Memory 

OF the 

SIX THOUS.\ND SOUTHERN' SOLDIERS 

Here Buried, 

WHO DIED IN C'^MP DOUGLAS PRISON, iSh2-5. 

All the panels, bronzes and polished granite, are exquisite reproduc- 
tions of the photographs -even to representing the weather stains. 



BENEATH HALLOWED SOD. 

The Confederate prisoners dying in captivity are buried 'neath 
northern sod. "Side by side they sleep the sleep that knows no waking," 
away from home and kindred. To die is the last service a soldier can 
render his country, but to die a prisoner in a hostile land, far from all 
endearing associations, lends a special halo to his heroism. 

The breezy call of incense-breathin;:; morn. 

The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed. 

The cock's shrill clarion or the echoing horn. 

No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 

For them, no more the blazing hearth shall Ijurn 

Or busy housewife ply her evening care. 
No children run to lisp their sire's return 

Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 

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COMMANDER xVND COMPLIMENTARY STAFF, 

CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL PARADE, 

R O S T E R . 

No. I. MAJ.-GEN. JNO. C. UNDEKWOOD, ComniandinB. 

VOLUNTEER STAFF, 

No. 2. GEN. JOS. P. ELLACOTT, Actine Chief oj Staff. 

No. 3. GEN. CHAS. S. BENTLEY. Acling Adjutant-Genera!. 

No. 4. REV, JENKINS I.LOYD JtJNES. Acling Chaplain-General. 

No. 5. MR. ALEX H. REVEI.I.. Aid-de-Camp. 

No. 6. CAPT. MALCOM McNEILL. Aid-de-Camp (detailed). 

No. 7. MR. CHAS. U. GORDON. Aid-de-camp. 



THE COMPLIMENTARY STAFF. 

The gentlemen forming this staff vohinteered their services, were 
accepted, and took jiart (monnted) in the Confederate memorial parade, 
fioni the Palmer House, along Michigan avenue, to the Twelfth street 
tlepot. May 30. iX\)5, for which service appreciate thanks are herel)\- 
proffered. 




IUOGK.\PHIC SYNOPSIS OF THE STAFF 



JOSEPH PARNACOTT ELLACOTT, was born .it H.itherleisli. EiiuUiKi. December rr, 1844 
imiiiigraled to Chicago in 1S54; eradualed Irom the public scliools and .National Business Colletje. 

In the fall of 1S58, although not old enough to be a member, he drilled with the Ellsworth Zouaves. 

In i,%2 he organized and was elected captain of the Union Park Hume Guards. 

In the tall of 1,864, when the news came that an attempt was to be made to liberate the prisoners 
in Camp Douglas, he reported his command to Col. Sweet, the commandant of the prison, for active 
duty. After the war he pursued scientific studies and became a mechanical engineer. He was super- 
intendent of machinery of the Inter State Industrial e.\positiun in i,SSi and chief engineer of the 
World's Exposition of Railroad Appliances in 1SS3. 

He Wris one of the early advocates for a military branch to the I. O. O. P., .ind after its successful 
organization, attained the rank of major-general, as a reward for meritorious service, and is an active 
scientihc, broad minded man. 

CHARLES S. liENTLEY was iiorn in Schoharie, N. Y., and moved to La Crosse, Wis. Enlisted 
in Second Wisconsin cavalry. October 10, 1861; promoted sergeant, then hrst lieutenant, and became 
captain of his company. D. July 4, 1S64. Seived as aid to I'.en. E. B. Bro%vn at the second bailie of 
Spnngheld. Mo., and was recommended for promotion "for bravery on the baiiletielil " Served as 
acting assistant adjutant-general at the battles of Prairie Grove. Ark.; Newtonia. Mo., and ihe raid on 
\ an Buren. .\rk., and was appointed acting inspector general of the cavalry brigade at Vicksburg. 

He was mustered out of the United Slates service in I-ebruarv, 1865, at Memphis. Tenn. 

After the war he went to Iowa, joined and served seven yeaVs in the State militia, lour of which 
■is brigadier-general, commanding the Second brigade. He commanded the Inter-State military 
encampments at Dubuque, Iowa. Nashville. Tenn., and, in 1885, Camp Drum, at Mobile. Ala. 

He moved from Dubuque. Iowa, to Chicago, where he is now in business. 

JENKIN LLOYD JONES is a Welshman by birth, an American by adoption and a minister of the 
gospel and editor by cultivation and ability, [See his "Biographic" on page 82j. 

ALEXANDER II. REVELL was born in Chicago. 111.. lanuary 6. 1838. Educate.l in the public 
schools of the city and under special tutors. He began his business career as a poor boy, but has rapidly 
pushed to the front, and is to-day at the head of one of the largest and most successful business houses 
in the western country. 

He is a member of the various clubs of Chicago and takes active interest in all public matters- and 
though never a candidate for public oflice, he has been a member of the school board. 

He IS a self-made man in the truest sense, and as such is a most active type and thorough 
representative of an energetic, determined and prosperous business man of Chicago. 

. ...'^■ALCOM McNeill was bom in Kentucky. October. 1S46; taken by his father to his plantation 
in Mississippi, and at the beginning of the war. at the age of 15 years, he joined "Henderson's Scouts." 
a no ed body of independent cavalry, and afterward the Eighteenth Mississippi regiment of Forrest's 
cavalry, C. b. A.; was in many engagements, including the bloody battle of Franklin. Tenn. At the close 
ot the war he completed his education, and in 186S commenced mercantile business near Grenada Miss 
whence he moved to Chicago in 1S75 and engaged successfully in large real estate transactions 

He IS a member of the Chicago Real Estate Board, chairman of the board of control. National Real 
Estate Association, and was actively engaged relative to the World's Real Estate Congress at Chicago in 
i«93. He was captain and aid-de-camp to Gen. Chas. Fit/-Siinons, First brigade. I. N. G., iSSvi8S8 acted 
as brigatie quartermaster in 1884, and took part in quelling strikes of that period 

He IS one of Chicago's energetic business men and enjoys the respect of his associates. 

K, .^"•\R.'-ES ULVSSIOS GORDON, was born in Dunlap, Peoria county. HI.. April -,. iS6s. and 
obtained his early education in the public and high schools in and near the place of his birth. He was 
^Pn^d'!; =i\?L n''"" '-'"'od States Mililary Academy, but owing to ill he.ilth, resigned, and after- 
ward graduated at Bryant's College and studied law in Chicago, where he went in 1S81 

He at hrsl engaged with several large manufacturing firms, afterward entered the real estate busi- 
ness, in 1885, and IS a member of the Chicago Real Estate Board and s»rved as its secretary for one vear. 
He IS a member of the Union League, Chicago. Athletic and Marquette clubs, andis the present 
.ident of the latter; is a prominent Mason, a member of the Art Institute and Civic Federation- and 
iieof the leading young Republicans of Chicago, takes a prominent part in local, stale and national 



presi 

as on 

politics; is of the most active type of Chicago's energetic voung business men 

ever ready to advance the interests of his city. Member of First 

has held several positions of military honor. 



beral in his views and 
eginient infantry, I. N. (j., in 1883 and 




:\lay 29-31, 1895. 
UIOGRAPHIC: 

M. L. C. Kunkhouser was born January 17. 1864 at St, Louis. Mo., and educated in the St. Louis High school. 

At the age of 17 he commenced active business in St Louis, and afterward went to New Orleans where he remained a short 
wliile, and then, returning to St. Louis, he was engased commercially there until 1SS4, wlien he moved to Chicago, Shortly 
after reaching Chicago he entered the office of Geo. W. Montgomery cS: Co.. which tirm becoming general agents of ilie 
Fidelity and Casualty Company for the west in 1886. he was made assistant general agent in :8S8; and later, was 
promoted to one of the g-neral agencies and admitted to partnership in both the local, fire and general agency business 
and is a thorough and ntosi active business man. 

He was five years lieutenant of the Chicago Hussars, two years captain of the Chicago City Troop, now Troop "C." I. N. G.. 
which position he still holds He takes great interest in military affairs, has a commanding, soldierly appearance and is 
an attable. courteous gentleman. 




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CONFEUERATE Ml'IMoRIAL PARADE. 

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Decoration Day in ChicaL;o was like nothing in tin- liistory of nations. 
It sent in the same line the victor and tlie vaminisiied, each with gar- 
lands for its own army of dead, with the uncounted tiionsands from the 
lieart of the city to Oakwoods, clieering for the minior\- of heroes, of 
friend or foe. 

It was the first time since the first shot that warriors from the north 
and cavaliers from the south forgot entirely revengeful bitterness and en- 
gaged in such a public demonstration (.)f unity. It marked an epoch. The 
multitudes heard upon tlie same winds plaudits for the men who died for 
their country and the yell which led the hardest and bravest enemy that 
ever faced fire. 

It was this unique feature that brought to the city a crowd which 
barely found standing room in the stretch of territory reserved for the 
ceremony. The streets began to fill sliorth' after sunrise, the visitors 
and townspeople, the dwellers above and below the line between here 
and Dixie, gathering to witness the spectacle — a scene not possible 
in any other land that knows the sun. They climbed into points of van- 
tage, into balconies and windows, swarmed about the sides of the boule- 
vards and into the cemetery, long before the roaring guns on the lake 
front belched the starting signal. 

This host grew in rapid thousands with each hour, pushing, jamming, 
scrambling for positions. It was eijual to the scenes of World's Fair 
fetes, and when the commander with his staH tried to leave the Palmer 
House to begin the famous march he found Monroe street in possession 
of men and women boimd to welcome the forgiven enemy. Policemen 
begged and then belabored the front rows of people, persistent in their 
determination to see at close range the distmguislied Confederate 
leaders. 

The parlors and corridors of the Palmer House presented an animated 
scene. The Confederate party was to have left the hotel for the Twelfth 
street depot at 8:00 a. m., but owing to the late hour at which they left 
the banquet few of them were ready at that hour. 

Instead of 8:00 a. m. it was 9:30 a. m. when the march to the depot 
began. City Troop men were lined across the way, with swords at 
a "present." It was a slow task to start. There was no space for the 
parade, hut, turning their horses into the throng, the cavalry detachment 




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opened a space to Michigan liouh-vard. and the first procession of sonthern 
soldiers in a nortliern city was nnder way. Tlie formation of the cohimn 
was as follows: First, a platoon of police commanded b\ Lieut. Hayes 
second, the Ciiicago City Troop, Capt. Fnnkhouser, as escort ; Gen. Under- 
wood and staff, mounted, and fifteen carriages containing the Confeder- 
ate visitors and other guests. The first carriage contained Gen. Long- 
street and his family; the second, Gen. Hampton, Gen. S. 1). Lee, Col. 
Belknap and Mr. E. F. Lawrence; Senator Butler and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee 
occupied the third carriage. Other carriages contained Cjen. H. A. 
Wheeler and staff of the Illinois Natituial Guard, the remainder of the 
guests and the committee. The column moved down State street to 
.'^dams street, east to Michigan avenue, and south to the depot. 

Gen. Orendorff, Gen. H. Kyd Douglas, Maj. Robt. W. Hunter and 
Messrs. Malcom McNeill and I'. \'. Roliinson chaperoned Misses Eliza 
Washington, Isabelle Armstrong. Margaret Cox, \'irginia and Laura 
Mitchell, the young ladies delegated to ring the Columbian libertv bell. 
The party proceeded the procession to a point on Michi^^an avenue, near 
the Leland Hotel where the liberty bell, mounted on a wagon drawn by 
four horses, occupied the entire center of the roadway. The young 
ladies alighted from the carriages and, taking the rofie in their hands, 
rang out thirteen strokes, while the masses of people who had gathered 
on the lake front to witness tlie ceremony, cheered vociferously. 

Scarcely had the echo of the last stroke died away when the cannon 
of Russell's artillery thundered forth a national salute of forty-four guns 
in acknowledgment of a reunited country and welcome to the southern 
men and women who had come north to honor their dead and strew the 
graves of two armies with sweet llowers from Di.xie land. Battery D 
drawn up so as to present its full strength near the Art Institute on 
Lake Front park, never appeared to better advantage, and, unsurpassed 
as a national guard organization, its war-like appearance and the boom 
of its guns so inspired the military chieftains, as they passed its battery 
front, that they called attention to such battle music as a fitting intro- 
duction to the after ceremonies at the graves. The parade continued 
along Michigan avenue to the Twelfth street depot, and the desire of 
the populace to be gracious was manifested from its first appearance 
throughout the entire line of march. Capt. I^ussell's battery was 
ringing the echoes on the shore, but high above this din and the clatter 
of cavalry hoofs people shouted good cheer to Longstreet, Hampton 
and the Lees. They lifted their hats in honor of the generals, each 
bearing on an arm that knows a saber swing .some fair daughter of the 
land of fairest women, and each received the clamorous reception by 
chivalric acknowled<'ment. 



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BIOGRAPMIC: 

Alfred Kussell was born in Boston, Mass . April 



, 1836; was e«iucated in the public scliools of New York city, and went to 
Chicago in April. KS55. 

He ena^ged in active business and finally became established on South Water street, where he has been a successful merchant 
and financier for thirty years. 

Possessins a natural taste for the profession at arms, he joined the Chicago Veteran Light Artillerv organized January 19. 1878. 
now "D" Battery Light Artillery, 1. N C, and w:i^ elected and cnmniissioned junior second lieutenant November 27. 1880, 
and re-elected for three terms: was promoted first lieiit^-nant Februarv 17. 1894: commissinned captain July 7, 1894. and is 
now major First Haitalion Liglit Artillery. I. N G. The high standing, perfect discipline and general excellence of 
■"Battery D." is, in the main, due to his powers of organization, martial spirit and gre^t exe^-utive ability. 

He is a very prominent thirty-third degree Freemason, having been coininantler-in-chief of Oriental Consistory 1S85-7 and 
grand treasui er of the Illinois Council of Deliberation, 




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The greatest ciiriosit\' was exhibited in rei^anl to l\\c most prominent 
southerners. I'^ver\' one wlio c(.)uhl pcjint them out had a crowd ot 
peopK' around him who seemed tl)aid<ful for the information. Some of 
the hotels on the hne of march ware decorated with fid'^s luiny on the 
front, and the lfa,L;s on the tl.i;;-stalls ware at half-mast. .\t the depot 
the police and Cit\' Troop wheeled into line and Capt. I'unkhouser 
caused his command to gi\e military honors to the distini;nished 
personai^es as thev passed. The transfer from carriaf^es to the train 
and the trip to Sixtieth street were accomplished smoothl_y and a;;reeabl\-. 

At Sixtieth street, when tht- \isitors left the train, the\' took carriages 
again, and from that i)oint were escorted In tlu' Black Hussars, Capt. 
T. S. (,)uince\', conim.inding, to Oakwoods cemeters . the first part of the 
drive being on tin Midway Plaisance. .At e\er\' point of their pro- 
gress the\- saw solid columns (jf pjople mo\"ing along the streets toward 
the same sjiot, sj that after tlie\' hnd passed tlirough the cemeterx' gates, 
where The ex-Confederate .Association, Maj. B. h". Jenkins, command- 
ing, stood with nncoxered heads to welcome them, the\' were not 
surprised to hnd that a throng of 100,000 people had preceded them 
and captured e\erything, except the speakers' stand, that wouhl afford 
a view of the proceedings, not excepting eligible branches of the trees. 
When the head of the column arrived it was impossible to get near 
the iron gates as the news spread that the famous soldiers of the "lost 
cause " were coming. Women and men struggled with one and another 
in attempts to be close spectators. .A committee representing The ex- 
Confederate .-Association of Chicago and ladies had previousK' taken 
charge of the llaral decorations and, so distributed the many carhiads of 
plants and fljwers sent from the south, that p.dms, magnolias, jasmines 
and tropic creepers had m ide the Confederate sacre,/ three acres like a 
nook in a planter's garden. Laurel wreaths marked the concentric 
trenches in wdiich the bones of the brave southerners lie side In side, 
with beautiful lilies and palmettos drooping over them in groups of 
hundreds. The sighing poplars held festoons of thi.' vines, and hanging 
mosses of the south; while roses and magnolia l.>uds and bhjssoms 
covered the sod of the leveled mounds. 

Approaching the government lot, the Black f-fussars swept into sight 
and followdng them eame the United Confederate \'eterans ami the 
guests of the day. To the right and the left fell the crowd, and the men 
who, in their half undress uniforms still preserved memoties of old days, 
were given the place of honor. 

The speakers were comlucted to the platform, an 1 were followed by 
the representatives of the south, men and women; and there, to meet 
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Most of these gentK-men were accompanied 1)\- ladies, who were 
gowned exquisitely. Man\- of the younger of the southern girls were in 
white; those who were not, wore soft gray or black. Many people had 
expected to see Gen. Lee and others in some sort of uniform, and felt 
aggrieved that the only bit of bright color on the platform was made by 
the splendid uniforms of Gen. Wiieeler and his staff and the Columbia 
Post, which, after decorating the graves of comrades, assembled near 
the monument. 

While the speakers and guests were assembling on the grand stand 
the military band discoursed appropriate selections; and after the music 
ceased the ceremonies were commenced with the following: 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 



By GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD 

"Felhnt' CHizt'iis: 

"It becomes my duty on this occasion to officialh' e.xplain the objects 
of this movement toward monununting the prison dead of a lost cause, 
which 1 shall endeavor to do plainly and brietl\- h\ the following 
statement of tacts: 

"The close of the civil war of iShi 65 found the south destitute of 
almost everything sa\e the manhood of the few surviving men and the 
purit}' of its women. Principles of the past ami desires for the future 
were submerged by the mighty sea of necessitx under a motlo of "To 
do," to meet and solve the immediate problem of life. Therefore, for 
the time, the proper caring tor the dead and monumenting heroism had 
to be put aside for the sterner need of making bread and obtaining other 
physical requirements, but the heart pulsation to honor the l)uried 
remains of a soldiery that could do and die existed. When times became 
better and the natural resoiuces of the southland enabled it to bloom 
and blossom, its people began to care for their hero dead, and the flame 
that was formerly latent burned into an active desire to erect tributes to 
the sleepers of the "sixties." 

"This germ grew to such an extent that an organization was effected 
among the battle-scarred soldiery of the south, known as the United 
Confederate \'eterans, and the little l)ody of ex-Confederates who had 
previously formed themselves into The ex-Confederate Association of 
Chicago merged into Camp No. 8, United Confederate Veterans. The 
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to monument the prison dead here buried, after the funeral of Gen. 
I.'. S. Grant, for the part taken therein b\' tlie Confederates of liiiihest 
standing caused the Chicago contingent to beHeve that it might be 
allowed to erect a monument over the thousands of southerners beneath 
this sod. Consefjuently permission was obtained from the secretary of 
war during President .Arthur's administration and the good work was 
begun. The first fund raised for the purpose was about Si, 400, the net 
proceeds from a lecture delivered in Chicago b}' Senator John B. Gordon 
of Georgia, now the president of the United Confederate X'eterans: and 
when I came to Chicago and joined the local association in 1S91, accept- 
ing the appointment as a committee of one to raise funds and erect a 
monument over the Camp Douglas prison elead. I received the rnonev 
from the Gordon lecture with interest, amounting to over Si. 500, as a 
nucleus upon which to build, .\fter years of solicitation I was so far suc- 
cessful as to add to the fund several thousand dollars, and then designed 
and contracted for the erection of this monument, submitting my plans 
to and receiving instructions directb' from the I'nited States army 
officers, having military control of the government plot on which it 
stands. Three-fourths of the money was subscribed by the liberal 
citizens of Chicago, the other quarter having been donated in varving 
small amounts from a hundred or more camps of the United Confederate 
Veterans in the south. 

"After the successful erection of the memorial structure in July. i^>93, 
I determined to secure an appropriate donation of ordnance from the 
government, and accordingly on application to Congress, through the 
instrumentality of Senator Gordon, got a bill passed through the United 
States Senate appropriating four cannon, shot and shell to ornament 
these grounds. The Senate bill failed to be reported by the military 
committee of the house through the first to the last days of the second 
session of the late Congress, when upon my personal application to the 
house committee it was unanimously approved, presented to and passed 
the house without objection, and the act was approved b\" the President on 
January 23. iSg5. In securing the cannon from the war department 
Gen. 1). W. Flagler, the chief of ordnance, I'nited States army, by 
his activity and research very kindly enabled me to obtain guns with a 
battle record, and consequently the battery here presented is of such 
renown as to make it a fit accessory to a monument for heroism, such 
as was displaced by the private soldiers here interred, shown b}- their 
fortitude, firmness and bravery even unto death. From careful investi- 
gation it appears that over 6,000 Confederate soldiers died in Douglas 
prison and are here buried in concentric trenches which cover nearh the 




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entire tliree-acre ]>lot, tliere being 4.317 names on the registers of the 
cemetery and o\er 400 additionals on the mortnary hsts in the war 
department at Washington of tliose wlio died witli smallpox, thereby 
making the recorded dead more than 4,700. to which should br added 
some 1.500. the record of whom was either bnrned or lost. 

'■Mr. Farwell. now deceased, the former prisidciil of ()ak\voods 
Cem.eters- Association, stated to me the fact regardin;; the missing regis- 
ter, and therefore the internnnts can in round nuuibers be safely placed 
at 6.000. In addition to the Confederate prisoners sleeping here are 
twelve I'ederal soldiers, who. as prison guards dying with smallpo.x. 
were buried with the Confederates. The remains ot this soldiery were 
first interred near the prison inclosures. afterward exhumed and con\eyed 
across the cit}' at night to Lincoln park, where after a limited sleep the 
6.000 were again disinterred, brought back at night and trencheil in this 
lot purchased b\- the government for the special purpose. 

"The go\'ernment lot was for many years covered by a thicket of 
undergrowth anil trees. The concentric mounds of the trench-graves 
were first decorated with flowers liy Col. C. K. E. Koch anil two Grand 
Army posts of Chicago and Englewood in iS7ti, and ever since have 
received attention at the hands of bra\e men. In inonumentiug these 
remains the e.x-Contederate element and the contributing citizens of 
Chicago materialh" expressed the desire to honor the heroism of a 
soldier}- that possesseil sufficient courage and determination to endure 
the hardsliips of militar\ confinement, culminating m death; and which, 
by such tortitutle enriched history with the character of a people, whose 
private soldiers. e\'en under most tr\ing circumstances gave life to their 
cause. These are the facts, ami it is for others to eidarge and orate 
thereon. 

•Tn recognition of the liberal element of the former opposing forces. 
I have selected a man to preside on this occasion who is the embodiment 
of honor, justice and morality, a broad representative of the I'nion 
veteran, a humanitarian and Christian gentleman. I now have the 
pleasure and honor to place in the ceremonial chair the Ke\'. H. W. 
Bolton, pastor of the Centenary Methodist church and past commander 
of U. S Grant Post No. 28. Grand Army of the Republic." 



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OAKWOODS CEMETERY, MAY 30, 1895. 




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BIOGRAPHIC: 

Horace Wilbeit Bolton was born at Orrington. Me., in 1839; received a liberal education; enlisted in tlie United States army in 

1862; served tluoufili the civil war and was discharged in 18G5. 
Began to study for the ministry in Methodist Episcopal church in 1865; ordained deacon in 1869, and ehier in 1871. 
Filled several prominent pulpits in New England, viz: Park Street church. Lewiston, Me.: Trinity church, Charleston, and 
First church. Boston, and was transferred to First church, Chicago, in 18S5. pastor Centenary church, Chicago, in 1890. 

and South Park Ave., church, Cliicago. 1S95. • 

Author of " Home and Social Life," " Patriotism," " Souls' Cry." " Fallen Heroes." " Reminiscences of the War." and 

" America's Next War." 
Chairman of the Ceremonies Dedicating Confederate Monument. Chicago, May 30, 1895. 




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ADDRESS. 

By KEV H. W BOLTON. D.D, 

"Gcii. John C. Uiidt')-ii.<ood, Gfiitlemru, Comrades and Friends: 

" In accepting this honored position I cannot refrain from saying a 
word. Never in the history of any people were so many distinguished 
ex-officers of contending forces lirought together for tlie purpose of 
dedicating a monument erected to llie memory of the lieroic dead. It 
is truly an auspicious occasion, for which we are indebted to Gen. 
John C. Underwood, whose untiring devotion and persistent effort to 
cement in fraternal bond the two sectional elements of the general 
country is without a parallel. Blessed is that man or people who com- 
memorate the valor, courage, loyalty and conviction of men, for in 
biographical history is stored all that renders it valuable. Drop 
the names of a few men from Egyptian history and it would be 
read no more. Greece is indebted to the lives of Phidias and Socrates 
for its preservation and place in history. In the study of their lives 
and times we may learn all that is of value to the student. So with 
all kingdoms and republics. To-day we stand with comrades at the 
graves that are not simply houses for the dead, but vaults in which the 
Nation's power, fame and glory is stored. Thirty years have swept over 
these graves, the dust of wasting forms, and yet they are centers of 
sufficient power to arrest a nation in its march and call a generation, 
born since tliey were made, from home, hothouse and conservatory, 
hillside and valley with flowers gathered, selected, arranged and trans- 
ported for the decoration of the sacred dead. Ever\' heart in this 
broad land is made broader and more patriotic by the services of this 
day in this place. If there were no words spoken or songs sung, an 
hour among the dead who L;a\e up life for convictions, with muffled 
tread and silent prayer would impress us with a sense of that self-sacrifice 
which is most sacred to a nation's well-being. None can move among 
the disembodied spirits of such men without being inspired for better 
service. We come not as the soldiers of Grecian and Roman armies, 
but as brothers of one country. We have had trouble, 'tis true, and 
every thinking people will have. We entertained different ideas 
relative to government and polity- -ideas that begot convictions resulting 
in war, but we fought, not to destroy but to maintain, and now that the 
Union is preserved and all men, north and south, cheerfully accept the 




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results, support the s;o\'<_-rnrnent and obey the constitution, why should 
we be enemies or keep up a line of defense? Some months aRo an 
American lady traveling in Europe was invited to xisit the British 
Museum and on entering the room where the relics of American history 
are stored, the lady said to her guest, • 1 suppose you would like to 
see the flag we captured at Bunker Hilll'" 'Oh, no,' said the American 
lad}', 'I am not particular about that, we ha\e the hill I lielieve. and 
you're quite welcome to the flag.' So to-day we ha\e the Union, and 
30U liave the Union, and we are sons of the patriots who knelt upon 
these wild and inhospitable shores to consecrate America to freetlom 
and to Cjod. 

"Amid the storm the\' sang. 

And the stars heard and the sea, 
And the sounding depths of the deep woods rang 
To the anthem of the free. 

" It is now too late for us to sa\- what ought to have been done or wdiat 
could have been done. All of those questions have been settled in the 
lapse of time. A generation has been born and bred since we shook 
hands and threw down our arms; a thousand interests claim our attention 
that have been developed since the war, and there remains but one 
thing for us to do, and that is well e.xpressed in the couplet of an 
old hj'mn: 

"To serve the present age: 
My calling to fulfill. 
Oh, ma\- it all my powers engage, 
To do my Master's will. 

"Those born since the close of the war are now in the majority and 
must be impressed with the spirit of the survivors. If it be magnanimous, 
they will be inspired with that patriotism and loyalty which the conflict 
developed, and I verilj- believe that no heroic sacrifice is e\er lost, and 
that the characters of men are moulded and inspired b\' what they 
inherit, and by the interests they adopt and maintain. How much this 
country is indebted to the war of 1861 and 1865 no man can tell. 
Emigration began to take on its cosmopolitan features about the time 
of our trouble: emigrants from all parts of the world came among us, 
bringing the traditions and prejudices and national peculiarities of the 
whole earth. Man\- of them entered the .\rmy of the United States as 
Englishmen, Irishmen. Scotchmen, Germans and Frenchmen, but such 
as survived came out of the war Americans. I have heard the stubborn 




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Ens;lishman. the licroic Scotchman, the enthusiastic Irishman, the 
hrart\- German and the fun-lovint; I'renchnian join in singing 

"i\I\ conntr\' 'tis of thre. 
Sweet land of liberty, 
Of tliee I sing. 

as lustily as though thev had all been born and reared on these shores. 
"As true Americans we ought to enter into the service of this day with 
the same enthusiasm that characterized the days of enlistment, organiza- 
tion and conflict. Turning from the busy marts let us hasten to the 
mountains, whose rugged brows oiler flowers, and decorate the graves 
with a spirit so catholic as not to be influenced by any distinction, geo- 
graphical, political or religious. Leaving the blasts of war we hasten to 
praise God for the past and pra)" that peace and good will may fill all 
hearts and homes. Standing here on this beautiful rose-bedded earth 
beneath a smiling heaxen, let us seek Him who gave Himself for us and 
now waits with tmselhsh devotion to bless all men everywhere. Like 
Him who scatters the flowers at the hand of the wind on all, may we 
lose all that is selfish and unkind, in remembering tlie dead who suffered 
and sacrificed in the conflict. They suHered many days of weariness and 
pain, shall 7i'c not spend one da\- out of the three hundred and sixty-five 
in respect to their memory' Can we be true to our manhood and 
withhold? It is onl\- tloing what we wish others to do imto us. There 
is an inlurent desire in every soul to be remembered. What mean the 
mounds of Mexico, and the far west? The well tombs of I'eru? The 
memorials of F'alestine ami the songs of the poets? The mariner flings 
his farewell kiss with a 'Remember me:' the soldier wrote in his blood, 
'Remember me:' so say we 

••Death shall not claim the immortal mind, 
Let earth close o'er its sacred trust. 
Yet Goodness dies not in the tlust. 

"Our Divine Lord silenced the murmuring throng at his anointing 
with words of commendation co-e.\tensive with the gospel )ireached, and 
He established a memorial service to perpetuate His own memory 
throughcjut time. In view of this law of tlesire. histor)' has bein and is 
being written, tor this the halls and galleries are fillt'd with familiar 
faces anil forms, and in obedience to this claim we come here with music 
and flowers to say to our comrades. 'We remember thee: thou shalt 
never be forgotten.' To-day we unveil this monument and dedicate it 



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to the memory of the brave men who died in our cit^' while prisoners of 
war and who are buried in our midst — men who were as true to their 
convictions and as loj-al to their leaders as any class of men that ever 
put on the uniform, listened to the bugle call or marched to battle. In 
this we do not commemorate the cause for which the\' fought, or 
encourage any feeling of devotion to that Confederacy which surrendered 
at Appomattox in 1S65. Nor is there any man here who desires to have 
it commemorated, na}', our brothers received at the hand of Ulysses 
Grant their arms and horses with the exhortation, ' Let us have peace, 
for we are brothers! ' They have been, and are. true, loyal and 
devoted citizens of the United States. To-day we are one with a deeper 
sympathy, grander brotherhood and a diviner ministr\' than could have 
been but for the late war. 

"As we turn from the past to grapple with the priceless commodities 
left us, let us remember that to have lived in the nineteenth centurj' in 
America will be an awful accoimt to meet in the roll-call of eternity. 
There are 65,000,000 free spirits to be educated and directed in view of 
perpetuating the glory we have inherited. It is one thing to subdue 
the wild prairies and forests, emplo}' the tides, marshal the wealth, 
distribute the revenue and control the energies of a country, but 
it is another thing to utilize them in developing the resources of an 
inexhaustible storehouse. To turn $1,754,000,000 from the tide of 
sorrow, waste and death into the channels of enterprise and prosperity 
and open the gates of the whole world to our manufacturing interests is 
not an easy thing to do. and if we are to so assimilate the national 
peculiarities now represented in this country as to strengthen the body 
politic and preserve our republican institutions, we must be brothers. 
The socialistic problems of the daj', the financial questions of the hour, 
demand the hearty co-operation of all true lovers of American liberty, 
and if we would be true to the sacred dead we must bring to these 
questions our best service, for libert}' must go on — God hath ordered 
its flii;ht. An eminent countryman once said: 'Stop the march of 
liberty! As well might the boys of Boston mount the state house 
steeple on a lustrous night and call on the stars to stop in their course. 
Gently but irresistibly the greater and lesser Bear move around the pole, 
Orion with his mighty train comes up the sky, and the Bull, the 
Heavenly Twins, the Crab, the Lion, the Maid, the Scales, and all that 
shining company pursue their heavenly march night and day. The 
urchins in their lofty places grow tired, sleepy, and ashamed, while 



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Liberty moves steadily onward. ' Whilu it moves, comrades, brothers, 
so live that vou may increase the honor of those 

"On fame's eternal camping ground, 
Who their silent tents have spread, 
While glorv guards with solemn round 
The bivouac of the dead. 

'• Having been invested with the chair, it is fitting to begin the 
ceremonies with divine invocation, and with that view I now introduce 
to you the distinguished chaplain of the Kentucky 'Orphan Brigade' 
of the Confederate States army— Rev. Josepli Desha l^ickett." 




PRAYER. 

By REV. JOSEPH DESHA TICKETT. 

'•.Mmighty God, Lawgiver and Judge of all the earth! Our leather 
which art in heaven, hallowed be Th)- name! 

"We thank Thee for all Thy mercies unto this faxored land and we 
humbl}- beseech Thee to bless by the presence of Thy Spirit, the great 
purpose of our convention here this dav, in the cause of ' Peace and good 
will toward men. ' 

"Divine Father, in the name and in tlu' service of the I'rince of 
Peace, we present ourselves as Thy children come before Thee, bearing 
palms and olive branches in our hands. From the north and the south, 
from the east and the west, we come as brothers, to present our offer- 
ings at these nameless graves — the graves of southern soldiers who died 
in prison, giving testimony of their faith, and at the graves of northern 
soldiers who offered their li\es for the restoration of the Union. 

"We thank Thee, that in Thy providence, leaders of the armies of 
the north and of the south, who etood face to face, in the heroic con- 
flict a generation ago, are present, side by side, animated by the same 
spirit, in the consciousness of a reunited country, of a restored Union, 
of a common citizenship in this mighty land. We thank Thee that such 
is the spirit of this vast assemblage, assuring by its presence, fraternal 
ruiion, in perfect peace, from ocean unto ocean. 

"Thou knowest. Father, that our pilgrimage to this spot is not to 
dedicate this monument to the • Lost Cause,' but to honor appropriately 
the last resting-places of faithful comrades who died in prison, far away 
from their southern homes. As such, may this monument ever be a 
shrine sacred to Peace! 




CHAPLAIN JOS. DESHA PICKET! 

DURINO THK SIXTIES. 



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BIOGRAPHIC. 

Joseph Desha Pickett was born at Washi.-igton. Ky., January 6. 1822; graduateii at Princeton College in j^^ji and Bethany 
Theological College in 1^49; continued liis studies in Europe in 1^51-2; traveled extensivelv in Europe. Africa and Asia. 

Ordained to the ministry January 6. 1S54; professor at Bethany College from 1S57 to the beginning of the civil war in iS6i. He 
moved his family to Kentucky, and. going south, espoused the cause of the Confederacy; member of the noted war con- 
vention of \'irginia; chaplain of Second regiment infantry, Kentucky, C. S. A . November 7. 1SO2; chaplain of the Ken- 
tucky '■ t)rphan Brigade" January. iSfij. to close of war. 

Founded the Kentucky Kelief Society for benefit of tlie survivers of the Orphan Brigade and other Kentucky soldiers. 

Resumed the work of the ministry in Kentucky in 1^65; connected with the Kentucky I'niversity, iSfi^-SS; professor in the Agri- 
cultural and Meclianical College of Keniiicky, iS78-7g: superintendent of public instruction of Kentucky, iS79-C)i; at 
different ticnes president of Agricultural and Mechanical C ollege of Kentucky and College of Arts of Kentucky University. 

He is accredited •• tigliting chaulain ' uf the Confederate army, and is now colonel and chaplain-general, Provisional Depart- 
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"Help us to realize that the lives that jiassed away on battlefields, in 
camp Of hospital, in prison or at private homes, or on the deep, in 
defense of principle, were not sacrificed in \ain. And of the nameless 
buried here and elsewhere, we know that Thou hast the -record.' Their 
names are written in Th}- book, and Me who died for men will remember 
tlu-m when 'the earth shall cast out the dead.' 

■■^take us feel, dear Father, that no drop of blood, no tear of love, 
was shed in vain in our prolonged conflict. Ilelp us to know they swell 
the rivers sweet, of perfect peace. Bind up the broken hearts, both 
north and south, and in all the lands of earth! Sail Thou Thy ships of 
mercy on the tides of blood! I'nfurl Thy flags of truce in every country 
of the earth! Bear Thou up the worlds with all Thy blessed plans and 
purposes! And help us all to help our fellowman along the progress of 
the ages! 

"For those who took the mother's place at the d\ing soldier's cot, 
who fed the hungry, clothed our shivering bo\s. and in their deep and 
tender sympathy and in their lo\ ing ministrations, breathed the spirit of 
home and brought sunshine to their prison life, we pray Thee, Father: 
Bless their memories! Bless their children and their children's chil- 
dren, through all the j'ears to come! May never a friend be lacking 
unto them in sickness, sorrow, loneliness or death! May many a 
mother's lilessing, north and south, come home to them wherever their 
lot may be! 

'Tn the name of the i'rince of I'eace, we ask Thy blessing on the 
spirit that conceived this day of peace, and upon all who are co-operating 
in the grand and gracious work. TJlessed are the peacemakers, for they 
shall be called the children of God!' Give us all Thy Spirit, that in the 
hojie of eternal life in Christ, our Lord, we may ever manifest T^eace on 
earth, good will toward men.' to Tin 'glory in the highest.' Amen," 

.\nthem, by the Imperial-Arion Octut. 

Chairman Bolton: "Gi'ii/Zt-in,// — We are honored with the presence 
of a man whom to honor is to fie honoretl, who suffered more than 
almost any other man by the war of 1.S61-5. A true soldier, adored by 
his command for his soldierl)- bearing and courage: respected by his 
enemies for his abilit\' and manliness: loved and revered by his country- 
men as soldier, statesman, scholar and gentleman. Given the public 
positions of United States railroad commissioner, governor of his state 
and I'nited States senator, he has served with honor and won fame. 

•• 1 now have the esteemed pri\'ilege of introducing as the orator of 
this occasion a man who is a typical southerner. Lieut. -Gen. Wade 
Hampton of South Carolina." 



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GEN. WADE HAMPTON DELIVERING THE DEDICATORY ADDRESS. 




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DEDICATORY ORATION. 

By LIEUT.-(.;EN. wade HAMPTON. 

"The scene presented here' to-day is one that could not be witnessed 
in any country but our own, and for this reason, if for no other, it 
possesses a significance wortliy of the gravest consideration. A few 
years ago brave men from the north and from the south stood facing 
each other in hostile array, and the best blood of the country was 
poured out like water on many a battlefield. Thousands, himdreds of 
thousands, of our bravest sleep in bloody graves — men who gave their 
lives to prove the faith of their convictions; and now north and south, 
standing by these graves wherever they may be, grasp hands across 
the bloody chasm, and proudly claim Federal and Confederate soldiers 
as Americans — men who have given to the world as noble examples of 
courage and devotion to duty as can be enrolled on the page of history. 

"Nor is this all that marks this occasion as exceptional and remarkable, 
and which should render it memorable in our annals for all time to 
come. No monument in the world has such an honorable history as 
attaches to yonder one. That marks the graves of no victorious soldiers, 
but of the followers of a lost cause; it stands not on southern soil but 
on northern; the men who rest under its shadow come from our far-off 
southland, and it owes its erection, not to the comrades of these dead 
soldiers, but mainly to the generosity and magnanimity of their former 
foes, the citizens of this great city. All honor then, to the brave and 
liberal men of Chicago, who have shown by their action that thej' 
regard the war as over, and that they can welcome as friends, on this 
solemn and auspicious occasion, their former enemies. As long as that 
lofty column points to Heaven, as long as one stone of its foundation 
remains, future generations of Americans should look upon it with pride, 
not only as an honor to those who conceived its construction, but as a silent 
though noble emblem of a restored Union and a reunited people. In the 
name of my comrades, dead and living, and in my own name, I give grateful 
thanks to the brave men of Chicago, who have done honor to our dead 
here, not as Confederate soldiers, but as brave men who preferred 
imprisonment and death rather than freedom obtained by a dishonorable 
sacrifice of the principles for which they were willing to die. 

"Of the six thousand Confederates buried here, not one was an officer. 
All were privates, in no way responsible for the unhappy war which 



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irought an Iliad of woes upon our countr\-. And \et these humble pri- 
vate soldiers, an_v one of whom could have gained freedom In taking the 
oath of allegiance to the Federal government, preferred death to the 
sacrifice of their principles. Can any possible dishonor attach to the 
brave men of Chicago because the}' are willing to recognize the courage 
and the devotion to duty of these dead Confederates? Imagine if you 
can, my friends, the despair, the horror of these poor privates, lingering 
in prison, and d_\ing for their faith. They died here, in what they 
looked upon as a foreign and hostile land, far from the land of their birth, 
with no tender hand of mother or wife to soothe their entrance into the 
dark valley of the shadow of death, and with all the memories of their 
far-off homes and loving kindred to add the sharpest pangs to death 
itself. They were true men, and say if you please that they were mis- 
taken, that the\- were wrong, no brave man on earth can fail to do honor 
to their courage and their steadfast adherence to what thev conceived to 
be their duty. You, the brave citizens of Chicago, in doing honor to 
their memory, honor yourselves anil humanitw Nor will you blame 
us of the south, while appreciating gratefully your generous action in 
behalf of our dead comrades, for cherishing with pride and reverence 
their memory, "^'ou could not respect us were we to feel otherwise. 
Death places its seal on the actions of men. and it is after death that we 
'measure men.' 



•'A King once said of a Prince struck down, 

'Taller he seems in death.' 

And this speech holds true, for now as then. 

It is after death we measure men. 

And as the mists of the past have rolled away, 

Our heroes who died in their tattered grav, 

Grow taller and greater in all their parts. 

Till they fill our minds, as thi.'y fill our hearts. 

And for those w^ho lament, there is this relief, 

That glory stands by the side of grief. 

Yes, they grow taller as the 3'ears go by, 

.\nd the world learns how they could do and die. 



The nation respects them. The east and west. 
The far-off slope of the golden coast, 
The stricken south and the north agree 
That the heroes who died for 3'ou and for me — 
Each valiant man, in his own degree. 



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Whether he tell on the shore or sea — 
Did deeds of which. 
This land. thi)iiL;h rich 

1 11 histories. ina\ lioust. 

And the Safe's book and the I'oct's la\' 

Arc full of the deeds of the men in ,L;ra\. 

No lion cleft from the rock is ours. 

Such as Lucerne tlisplays. 

Our only wealth is in tears and flowers, 

And words of reverend praise. 

.And the roses brou.nht to this silent yard 

.Are red and white. Behold' 

riiey tell how wars for a kingly crown, 
In the blooii of England's best writ down. 
Left Britain a story whosi' moral old 
Is fit to be gra\'en in te.Kt of gold; 
The moral is. that when battles cease 
The ramparts smile in the bloom of peace. 

And flowers to-day were hither brought 
From the gallant men who against ns fought; 
York and Lancaster — gra\' and blue, 
Each to itself and the other true. 

And so I say 

Our men in gray 
Have left to the sonth and north a tale 
Which none of the glories of earth can pale. 




"We. of the sonth. measure our dead comrades buried here bv the 
standard applied to men after death, and vou, of Chicago, have measured 
them l)y the same standard, the only standard b\ which we can measure 
men, and by applying this you have shown that \ou have come to the 
highest standard vouchsafed to men. and on this north and sonth can 
stand, with honor aliki' to both sections. 

"Are any Federal soldiers disloyal to the flag under which they fought 
because they join in decorating the graves of brave men whom thev 
met in battle!" Thousands of I-'ederal soldiers rest under southern skies, 
in soutlurn graves — man\' in unknown graves. 




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••Where some beneath \'irginian hills, 
And some by green Atlantic rills. 
Some by the waters of the west, 
A myriad unknown heroes rest. 

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"Of them, their patriot Zealand pride, 
The lofty faith that with them died, 
No grateful page shall further tell. 
Than that so man\- bravely fell. 

"And when on Memorial Day in the south the graves of our dead are 
decorated, gray-headed Confederate veterans, and noble devoted women, 
strew flowers over the graves of Federal soldiers. If the humane 
generous action of the people of this city in doing honor to the memory 
of their old antagonists is denounced as desecration, it would seem to 
follow that the decoration of Federal graves by ' Rebel ' hands, should 
be open to the same criticism, but no denunciation of southern people 
for daring to honor the memor)' of men who were once their enemies 
has met my eyes. Such narrow and bigoted feelings as would prompt 
a discordant note on occasions of this sort are rarely found among true 
men and brave soldiers, and I have often thought that if the two great 
captains who were engaged in that death grapple in \'irginia had been 
left to settle the terms of peace, each supported by his faithful followers, 
the country would have had a peace indeed, one honorable alike to 
victors and vanijuished, and which would have prevented the evils 
brought about by the politicians. As it is, the south recognizes and 
honors the magnanimity of Gen. Grant toward our great chief, 
Gen. Lee, and deplores as an unmitigated misfortime the assassina- 
tion of Lincoln. 1 repeat emphatically, that the untimely death of 
President Lincoln was regarded by all thoughtful men of the south as 
one of the most serious evils which had befallen our section, and I 
venture to say that my southern associates here present will sustain my 
assertion. We know that during the war he devoted every energy of 
mind and body for a restoration of the Union, and that result accom- 
plished, we felt that his big brain and his kind heart would prompt 
him to deal kindly and leniently to his fellow citizens of the south, for 
his highest, if not his sole aim, was to see the Union restored, and it was 
a cruel hope that deprived him of what he had hoped would be the 
reward of his labors, and the south of one who would have been her 
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"Some of our northern fellow citizens seem to paraphrase the biblical 
question, 'Can anything good come out of Nazareth?' b}' applying it 
to the south, but, my friends, we really are not all evil. Put ^'ourselves 
in our places and judge us from that standpoint. In the convention 
which formed the constitution, there were two parties whicli held oppo- 
site opinions, one urging the formation of a strong central government, 
and the other advocating the doctrine of state rights. It was attempted 
to reconcile these antagonistic views by a compromise, by which it was 
declared that all powers not delegated to the general government were 
annexed to the states, but like all compromises it left this vital question 
unsettled, and from 1787 until 1861 the proper construction to be placed 
on the clause of the constitution just referred to has led to constant and 
often to angry discussion. This unfortunate condition of affairs was 
further complicated by the injection of the question of slavery into it, 
and we all know what has been the result of these unhapp}- differences. 
These are now all dead issues and I do not propose to discuss them. 

"It was a wise philosopher who said to a general commanding an 
army, T do not choose to argue with the commander of ten legions,' 
and when questions are submitted to the arbitrament of the sword, the 
decision is generally in favor of the ten legions. The vexed questions 
which have disturbed the country since the foundation of the government 
are settled, and reference to them is made only to show how natural the 
course of the south was, educated as the people there were in the school 
of strict state rights. Every southern man felt that a call made upon 
him by his state was an imperative command, and that his duty was to 
obey without hesitation and at all hazards. When the north called on 
its citizens to rally to the old flag, they, too, responded to the summons 
from a sense of duty, as did the people of the south to the call made on 
them. State allegiance and state pride in each case was the moving 
cause which arrayed millions of men in arms in this country, and while 
the war which brought them out caused untold misery to the country, it 
has taught a lesson to the nations of the earth, that America in arms tan 
def}' the world. It seems to me, too, that it should inculcate another 
lesson to us, and that is, that the time has come when the actors in that 
fearful fratricidal strife and those whom the\- represent should judge 
their former opponents as they would themselves be judged. This can 
be done without the sacrifice of principle on either side, as the example 
of our mother country has sliown us, York and Lancaster, Cavalier 
and Roundhead, no longer wage war on each other; all are Englishmen, 
proud of their country, and the red rose and the white are emblems of 




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peace, and of the glory of Old England. Can we not all be proud of 
the prowess of the American soldier? 

"I do not env)' the feelings of the man. \\'lio, looking upon this scene 
to-da\-. and estimating its importance, could denounce its observance or 
undervalue its significance. It inaugurates a new era, a new departure, 
and he who would denounce its fraternal spirit is no patriot. The sen- 
timents 1 express here are not new; only a short time since I had 
occasion to address m\- fellow citizens of Charleston. S. C. the 
cradle of secession, and I then used the following language, which 
is of the same tenor ot all 1 have uttered since the war ended: 

'"Let me not be understood as speaking to reawaken sectional ani- 
mosit}-, now happily dying out, nor as counseling one act of disloyalty 
to the restored Union. I recognize, as every true Confederate soldier 
does, the supreuiac\ of the constitution, the integrit\' of the Union, and 
all the obligations we assumed when our arms were laid down. W'e. of 
the south, are now an integral part of the great republic. Its flag 
waves unchallenged from the r(.ick-ribbed coast of Maine to the Golden 
(late and far-oft Alaska, from the snow-capped mountains of the north 
to the orange groves of Florida, and it is the duty of every patriot to 
make that countr\ the fit abode for freemen for all time to come. But I 
appeal earnestly and reverently for justice to my Confederate comrades, 
dead and living. They discharged their dut\-, as thev saw it, bravely 
and nobh', and (iod alone can judge whether the\" were right or wrong.' 

"These men, resting here 'til summoned to answer to the last roll call 
on high, were my comrades; many of them from my own state, and 
perhaps some of them of m\' own command. Bear in mind, then, ni\' 
friends, that I speak for them and for the south while I plead for jus- 
tice to them and to my native land. I speak to the victors in behalf of 
the vanquished; I speak not for those who wear the laurel, but for those 
whose emblem is our mournful cypress. I speak for our ("onfederate 
dead. 



"1 sing the hymn of the conquered, who tell in the battle of life, 

The h\mn of the wounded, tht:' beaten, who died overwhelmed in tlie 

strife; 
Not the jubilant song of the victors, for whom the resounding acclaim 
Of nations was liftetl in chorus, whose brows wore the chaplet of fame. 
But the hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in 

heart. 
Who strove and who tailed, acting bravely, a silent, a desperate part; 



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Whose 3'outli bore no tlowers on its brandies, whose hopes burned in 

ashes away, 
From whose hands slipped thi- prize they had j^'rasped at. who stood at 

the d\inL; ot da\ . 
With the wreck of their H\'es all around, unpitied. unheeded, alone, 
With death swoopinf^ down o'er their failure, all Init their faith 

overthrown. 

■'Now my friends and fellow citizens of Chicai^o, the duty you 
hcmori^d me with is discharf;'ed; would that this could ha\i' been done 
in a manner more worth\' of this 5:ireat occasion, of your grand city 
and of its noble citizens, but rest assured that no one could feel more 
profoundly the importance of this occasion, nor have a higher apprecia- 
tion of the- honor \-ou have conferred on me. than myself. The action 
taken by the people of this queen city of the northwest in erecting 
a monument to men who in years gone by were opposed to them has no 
parallel in the history of the world, and I am sure that it will tend more 
than anything has yet done to do away with the animosities of the past, 
and to restore those fraternal relations which should exist lietween the 
citizens of a comnKui country. Wo of the south thank you lor your 
unstinted hospitality, for the kindness extended to us, and above all for 
the noble, magnanimous s]iirit you liave shown in rising above sectional 
feelings in setting an example to the whole country of brotherh' lo\e, 
of a sincere desire to bring about a more perfect union, and to make 
the citizens of this great republic all work in union to promote its wel- 
fare and to uphold its honor. Let it be hereafter the hope of all of us 
that our states shall be 

•■ I'istinct as the billows, liut one as the sea." 

" Te Deum," by the ImperiahArion Octet. 

Chairman Bolton: ^■Gcutldiicn — It is my privilege now to present 
Maj. Henry T. Stanton, tlie literary- genius and the poet laureate of 
Kentuck\', \vho will recite his memorial poem.'' 




MAJ. HENKV T. STANTON. 

DURING THE SIXTIES. 





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BIOGRAPHIC: 

Henry Thompson Stanton was born in Alexandria, Va,. jane ^o. 1834. and taken when four months old to Kentucky; educated at 
Maysville Seminary. LaGrange and Shelby Colleges, all of Kentucky, and United States Military Academy. 

Lieutenant of Company B, Fifth Kentucky infantry. Confederate army. September, 1861; captain, winter of iSfii; adjutant- 
Keneral of britiade, October 14, 1S62; nia|orand assistant adjutant-general, fall of 1864-5. ^: 

Served in all the campaigns of West Virginia, Tennessee, and East Kentucky; was in the battles of Seven Pines, Bermuda 
Hundreds, Knoxville, Saltville, etc., and recommended for promotion because of " gallantry and efficiency on the fields 
at Fayette and Charleston ;" was assistant adjutant-general of the department, and variously served with and upon the 
starts of Gens. Longstreet. Beauregard. Armstrong. Loring, Breckenrictge, Morgan, Williams, Echols, and was surren- 
dered under Gen. Jos. E. Johnston at Greensboro. N C. 

After the war he returned to Kentucky, and lias since been en^aijed in j Durnalistic and literary work, residing at Frankfort 



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MEMORIAL POEM. 

B) MAJOR HENRY T. STANTON. 

HEROIC SLEEP. 

Within this closed and darkened earth, 

All seeds of being lie, 
That, in good time, find light, and birth, 

To blossom and to die — 
To blossom and to fruit, and turn 

Again to whence they came; 
To give their ashes to an urn 

Where ash comes back to flame. 

Such is the law of life and death. 

The law that nature gives — 
Man comes from earth to one short breath 

And dies while yet he lives; 
For in this universe of parts 

One part completes the whole - 
With varied minds — with varied hearts 

There's one unvaried soul. 

In all our states of being here, 

From summer's dawn to frost; 
From dark to light, from birth to bier, 

No part of soul is lost; 
A system grand goes on and on. 

With true untiring wheels, 
And that which in our night is gone, 

Our morrow's sun reveals. 

There is no finite mind that solves 

This problem of God's plan — 
We know not if our life evolves 

From mollusk up to man; 
We cannot tracf an atom's course. 

Above, or under earth; 
We cannot find in vital force 

Its secret springs of birth. 





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^layliap a thousand million _vears 

Have been since human kind 
Came crowding on this sphere of spheres, 

With mastery of mind; 
We nia\ not tell, we cannot know 

What space has been since then. 
Though buried ages rise to show 

Their prehistoric men. 

A monolitli left here and there. 

In isolation stands; 
An obelisk that spears the air 

Gleams out of drifted sands; 
On ancient Egypt's fruitless waste. 

Vast pyramids are piled. 
That prove how perished races graced 

A spot that one time smiled. 

Throughout this thousand million years 

That may. perhaps, have sped, 
At intervals, some mark appears 

.Above their honored dead; 
Some mark of issues lost or won 

With great men stricken down. 
Some proof of sanguine war-work done 

For subject, or for crow^n. 

That martial pulse which men now feel. 

Throbbed in the cycles gone. 
And battles waged with stone and steel 

For human pride went on — 
We look not back from this new dav 

For good or ill so wrought. 
Sufficient that their granites say, 
•'Here rest the men who fought." 

Whilst yet our Arian race is young. 

To these long lines of stone. 
New hills and vales and plains among. 

We proudly add our own. 
We leave our marks of contests red. 

Of battles fotight too well. 
And rear our piles to heroes dead 

The same sad tale to tell. 



Where bright I'otoinac, in the sun. 

A plate of silver lies. 
Our marble shaft to Washington 

Goes out to pierce the skies, 
An obelisk that stands and waits. 

New centuries of sun 
Compiled of stones from sovereign states 

He moulded into one. 

There stands a mark at Bunker Hill 

On grand, historic ;;round. 
That ])roves how, in the rebel still 

The patriot is found; 
And ever_\-vvhere about this land 

These summer sunbeams slant 
On polished marble stones that stand 

To Lincoln, Lee and Grant. 

For men wIk, fought in all our wars 

And gave their valiant blood 
To glow in after-time, like Mars 

O'er life's enduriui; flood: 
For noble men on ever\' field. 

To honor's cause allied. 
Whose truth and glory stand revealed 

In that they iou-j^hl and died. 

That after years and after man 

Ma\ hud a stone-mark here, 
(-)f strife twi.xt northern Puritan 

iVnd southern Cavalier: 

That centuries anon may see 

How man to-day was brave. 
This sjieaking pile is placed to be 

.\ guide-post to his grave. 

Ihis granite stands for men who fou.L;]it, 

As man heroic must. 
Who loves his land and has no thou.yht 

But that his cause is just: 
This mark is such as valor plans. 

For spirit such as hers. 
Set up by victor Puritans 

For van<]uished Cavaliers. 




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It may not be that deathless pile 

Of Egypt's brazen clime, 
Nor yet that needle of the Nile, 

From out the sands of time. 
But it will stand while men believe 

That glory fits the brave; 
While flowers bloom, while women grieve 

Beside the hero's grave. 

Six thousand men lie buried here. 

Who from their prison close 
Were borne upon a soldier's bier 

To rest among their foes. 
No mother's tears, no wife's bewail. 

No child's pathetic cry; 
No home-friend near to list his tale. 

Or watch the soldier die. 

At martial hands their graves were made. 

Their coffins rudely dressed. 
And valiant soldiers gently laid 

Their foemen down to rest; 
And thus the brotherhood of man 

Is grandly proven here — 
It puts aside the Puritan, 

Blots out the Cavalier. 

This kinship of the hero lives, 

Estrange it how you will, 
The soldier to the soldier gives 

His meed of honor still; 
No matter what the cause may be. 

If wrongful, or if just. 
Chivalric foemen only see, 

True valor in the dust. 

The coward puts his spurning feet. 

Upon a foeman's grave. 
That base-blood cry: '• Revenge is sweet" 

Came never from the brave; 
And truer manhood noblest shows. 

Among ignoble hordes. 
When victors to their vanquished foes 

Hand back the vielded swords. 



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This honor dijiie on northt-ni soil 

To southern soldiers dead, 
In days to come, shall prove a foil 

To blood b}' brothers shed; 
Shall stand before our children's 63-63, 

A proof that courage shows 
The best where it can recognize 

The manhood ol it's foes. 

When faction lives and heat liegins, 

And naught save war avails, 
Comes revolution where it wins, 

Rebellion where it fails; 
And from this ruU- of wrathfulness, 

Where blood-bound people meet, 
The patriot is in success 

The traitor in defeat. 

When from proud England's iron sway 

Uur liberties we tore. 
Her stigma ''rebel" died away, 

Her "traitor" lived no more. 
With man to man in conflict met 

And war's great havoc done. 
There came an end to epithet 

When rebel-traitors won. 

With fast subsiding passion here 

I'rom internecine strife. 
The Puritan and Cavalier 

Are lost in newer life: 
Our days of perfect peace are on, 

Our compact made anew, 
And every shade of Gray has gone 

To mingle with the Blue. 

No more reproach, the end has conn/. 

The argument is o'er. 
In north and south the calling drum 

Shall be for, us no more — 
The banner of St. .\ndrews cross 

In silent dust is lain, 
.Vnd what has lieen a section's loss 

Shall prove a nation's gain. 





Whik' 3on unbelted soldier bends 

Above this granite base, 
Our land shall be the home of iriends. 

Where peace upholds its mace, 
Where martial lines shall never stand 

With gleaming sword and gun, 
Until, in service of our land, 

We march to fight as one. 

Nor Puritan, nor Cavalier 

A home grown strife shall see. 
While o'er the soldiers resting here 

This granite shaft shall be; 
With all of bitterness forgot — 

With all of taunting done — 
Columbia is freedom's spot. 

It's sovereign states are one. 

We've had our change from life to ileath. 

And back from death to life. 
The law oi nature gave us breath 

And with it pride and strife: 
We came from earth to bloom and fruit 

With master}' of mind; 
We've held our kingdom o'er the brute 

As gracious God designed. 

And still we keep the atom's place 

In this grand system here, 
We die and live again through grace 

Immortal in our sphere; 
We fall and find our rest in earth 

Where seeds in darkness lie. 
Where all things fall and come to birth 

And seem again to die. 

There is no finite mind that solves 

The problem of this plan; 
We cannot know how^ God evolves 

His fragile creature man; 
We only know that while we live 

The law of (iod is just, 
-\nd what We t;d<e from earth, we give 

In tribute back to dust. 



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And graniti- iiioiiuinents that stand 

Through Time's untiring roll. 
Are only guide posts on the land 

To show the course of soul; 
For human substance goes to earth. 

Whence human passions rise. 
But soul with God himself had birth 

And lives and never dies. 

Hymn, by the Imperial-Arion Octet. 

Chairman Bolton: •■Gnilleineii — Next we are honored by one who 
needs no introduction to an American audience —- soldier, chaplain, 
colonel, general, scholar, author, preacher an<l patriot — Rt. Rev. Bishop 
Fallows." 




MINISTERIAL. 

By RT. REV. SAMUEL FALLOWS. LL. D. 

''Our Union soldier dead cannot receive their meed of praise without 
the fullest recognition and the most unqualified admiration of the magnifi- 
cent bravery of their Confederate opponents. \'irtue is measured by 
the temptations it meets and masters. Success is scored according to 
the difficulties to be surmounted. Victory has its value precisely 
proportioned to the means and measures and magnitudes and men that 
enter into the stru!;gle. tn that greatest of wars West Point met West 
Point. Volunteer fought against volunteer. The liravest and the best of 
our northern hearts and homes slept the soldier's last long sleep with the 
bravest and the best of our southern hearts and homes. Sincerity' strove 
against sincerity': conviction confronted conviction; determination defied 
determination; sacrifice set itself over against sacrifice; prayer plumed 
it'> jietitions against prayer. Not men of alien lineage were these who 
so heroically opposed us. In their veins flowed the purest of American 
blood. The toughness of its iron was tested, in the winnini;. by their 
fathers, for the American people, of our imperial northwestern and 
southwestern domain from savage and civilized foes. Beneaih the Stars 
and Stripes they conquered the armies of Englanif and outwitted the 
diplomacy of France and Spain. .\nd now to-da\-, thank God, we are 
all Americans. We are brothers again amf forever. The god of 
nations himself has set upon our country, in the issues of the conflict, 
the seal of an unbroken oneness and of an indisputable supremacy. 
The raising of this noble shaft to commemorate the gallant Confederate 
dead in this northern city, on this historic occasion, attests this 
"lorious truth. 




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BIOGRAPHIC; 

Samuel Fallows was born in Pendleton, near Manchester, England. December 13. 1835. 
Literary Record:— 

Graduated from University of Wisconsin in June, 1859: vice-president Galesville Lfniversity, Wisconsin, from June, 
i&5g-6i-, Profpssor-elect of natural science Lawrence University. Appleton, Wi-; , 1863; repent of University of 
Wisconsin from iSri6.74; professor-elect of rhetoric. University of Wisconsin, isfi?; state superintendent public 
instructions of Wisconsin, July 6, 1870.10 December 31, 1873; president Illinois Wesleyan University, Blooniiiigton. 
1874.-5; president board of managers, Illinois State Reformatory. 1S90— ; president People's Institute. Chicago, 1891— 
Military Record:— 

Chaplain Thirty-second regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry. September 25. 1862; lieutenant-colonel Fortieth regiment 
Wisconsin volunteer infantry. May 20, 1S64; colonel Forty-ninth regiment Wise -nsin volunteer infantry, January 
28, i«65. Brevetted brigadier general, U. S- volunteers. October 24. 1865: chaplain Second regiment Illinois National 
Guard. October 20, 1890, 
Ministerial Record:— 

Ordained deacon, Methodist Episcopal church, Anril 10. 1859; ordained presbyter, Methodist Episcopal church, 
September 9. 1H60; consecrated bishop in the Reformed Episcopal church, Chicago. July, 1S76; elected presiding 
bishop four times. 




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••TliL' monuniciit of the Union soldier is onr conntr\- -our whult- 
country. But grand though it is. it is an unfinished nionunient. The 
north cannot bniltl it alone, neitiier can tiie east nor the west. I he 
north and tlie soutli, the east and the west, must join in the blessed 
work. Every opening of industry, every development of commerce. 
every act of justice, every advance in liberty. ever\' sentiment of peace, 
every note of conciliation, every hand-grasp of reconciliation, every 
heart-throb of love add to its stability and glory. 

"The sword is rusting in the scabbard- let it rust itself awa}' — and 
with its increasing dimness and its decreasing sharpness, let tin.' glow of 
our animosity- continue to die out. and the keenness of our reciprocal 
sympathy augment. Let the burden of the remembrance of struggles, 
defeats and victories, be not a wedge to drive us asunder, but the \ery 
keystone to make our national arch the stronger. Let the burning 
strife which led to unparalleled feats of arms on a thousand battlefields, 
give place to tlu' glad endeavor to outvie each other in deeds of chival- 
rous devotion to our common countrx's good. Let the dead past bury 
its dead, and from its sepulchered gloom shall come forth in robes of 
stainless white, the genius of a risen, purified, glorified republic. 

"To-day. the red letter day of this new era, with the eyes of the whole 
Nation upon us. we stre\v the flowers, the richest and the rarest, the gen- 
erous south, in token of her fiUl accord, can furnish, over the gra\es of 
the northern dead and the southern dead — iia\, from this tinn- forth and 
forever more, our uk.aii. And above us and about us— 1 do believe it — 
is gathered the great cloud of witnesses, the inustered-out armies that 
once met in battle shock, men who were faithful unto death and have 
received the crown of life, but onr ami)' now, the real, the Immortal 
Grand .-Vrmy of the Republic. 

'•Sheridan and Jackson. Sherman and |ohnston. Grant and Lee are 
there, are here, with that invisible, indivisible, approving, protecting 
host. And with the benediction of our common Father, and the Prince 
of Peace, our elder Brother, we rejieat the words that come from a 
soutliern woman's lips and loving, loval heart. 

"Together, cry the people, and together still shall be. 
An everlasting charter-bond, forever for the free. 
Of liberty, the signet-seal, the one eternal sign. 
Be these united emblems, the Palmetto and the Pine." 

Requiem, by the Imperial-Arion Octet. 

Chairman Bolton: •■Gtiitlenini — Gen. John C. Underwood, soldier, 
statesman, governor, jihilanthropist and friend, will now take charge of 
the military ceremonies." 



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MONUMENTING THE CANNON. 

LADY ASSISTANTS 



No. 1 

No. 2 

No. 3 
No. 4 

No. 5 



MISS LUCY LEK HILL ( Ky.. 1 ChicaBo, III., consecrated the first gun. 

MRS. ALBERT .'^KERS. Washington. D. C , consecrated the second gun. 

MISS L.^UR.\ LANDON MITCH ELL, Charleston, W. Va., consecrated the third gun. 

MISS ISABELLE ARMSTRONG, Washington. D. C. consecrated the fourth gun 

MRS. KATIE CABELL CURRIE, Dallas, Texas, dedicated the battery. 

To all of whom both official and personal thanks are hereby extended. 



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CEREMONIAL AROUND THE MONUMENT. 

As Prepared and Arranged by Maj -Gen. John C, I'nderwood, Commanding. 

Tlu' niilitar\-, with solemn, cadenced steps, marched in fnneral 
parade on the burial plot, to strains of the Dead March in Saul by its 
band, and formed a cordon about three faces of the monument. The 
Confederate Veteran Association and individual members of various 
Posts G. .V. R.. formetl a united line within the soldiery, facing east, 
with right resting near the monument. 




CONSECRATIXC. THE GUNS. 



Gen. Underwood: '^ PrepLiii to, Mi.inument thk Gins! " 

Whereupon the monumenting corps, composed as follows: 

For cannon No. i. Col. R. H. Stewart and Miss Lucy Lee Hill; for 
cannon No. 2, Col. Samuel J. Sullivan and Mrs. Albert Akers; for cannon 
No. 3. Lieut. -Col. George Forrester and Miss Laura L. Mitchell; for 
cannon No. 4. Lieut. -Col. John W. White and Miss Isabelle Armstrong; 
spiking party, Lieut. -Col. R. Lee France and Comrade Theodore Noel; 
for the batter}-. Gen. Fayette Hewitt and Mrs. Katie Cabell Currie. 

The members of the corps formed and, the gentlemen escorting the 
ladies, they passed along the united lines of Union and Confederate 
veterans, who stood uncovered, marched to and took position ,'it the 
guns. 

Gen. Underwood: "Ct'ii.u\-ra/f, thkGi-'Xs!" 

At Can.mon Nil. i — Col. Stewart, standing near the breech of the 
cannon, said; "This gun, having fired its last shot on the field of battle, 
will now be silenced forever. Spiki-, 1 he Gljx!" 

Thereupon the cannon was spiked, Lieut. -Col. France placing the 
spike, and Comrade Noel driving it home. 

.A.fter this Col. Stewart assisted Miss Luc)' Lee Hill on a pedestal, 
and the lady said: 

"This cannon, with its glorious record on the fiekl of battle, having 
been silenced forever, I do consecrate to the memory of the valorous 
soldiery we now monument, as a military decoration for their bravery 
and honor unto death." 

Ar C.XN'Ndx No. 2 Col. Sullivan, standing near the breech of the 
cannon, said; "This gun, having fired its last shot on the field of battle, 
will now be silenced forever. Spikf, the Gun!" 




SPIKING ONE OF THE (UINS 




CONSECRATING ONE OF THE GUNS, 



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Whereupon, the gun was spiked b}- tlie spiking party, and Col. 
Sullivan, assisting Mrs. Albert Akers on a pedestal, the lady saic 

"This cannon, with its glorious record on tield of battle, having been 
silenced forever, I do consecrate to the memory of the southern soldiers 
here buried, as a monument to their fortitude and endurance of the 
hardships of captive life." 

.\t C.A.NNON No. 3 — Lieut. -Col. George Forrester, standing near the 
breech of the cannon, said: "This gun, having fired its last shot on the 
held of battle, will now be silenced forever. Spikr, i'hk Gi;n'I' 

Thereupon, the gun was spiked by the spiking party, and Col. For- 
rester, assisting Miss Laura Landon Mitchell on a [ledestal, the lady said: 

"This cannon, with its glorious recor<l on field of battle, ha\ ini; been 
silenced forever. I do consecrate to the memory of the Confederates, 
whose soldierh' remains lie beneath this sacred sod, in monumental token 
of their firmness and manhood on the iield of battle and in prison." 

At C.\xnon No. 4 — Lieut. -Col. John \V. White, standing near the 
breech of the cannon, said: "This gun. having fired its last shot on the 
field of battle, will now be silenced fore\er. S/tikc, ihe Gun!" 

And, the gun having been spiked b)' the spiking party. Col. White, 
assisting Miss Belle Armstrong on a pedestal, the lady said: 

"This cannon, with its glorious record on field of battle, having been 
silenced forever, I do consecrate to the memory of those true men who 
gave their lives to the cause, and who, after three interments, are here 
sleeping, far from their loved southland." 



DEDICATION OF THE BATTERY AND ORDNANCE. 



Gen. Favette Hewitt, chief of staff, then assisted ?\Irs. Katie Cabell 
Currie to the central pedestal, and that lady spoke as follows: 

"These four cannon, being guns captured from the Union forces in 
the battles of Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. and afterward manned by 
the Confederates and fought on the southern side in the battles of 
Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Dalton, Kennesaw mountain. Peachtree creek, 
Atlanta and Franklin, were finalh' recaptured by the Federals in the 
battle of Nashville and subsequent engagements. It constitutes a field 
battery of light artillery of distinguished battle record and is here per- 
manently parked, never again to belch forth deadh missiles in horrible 
splendor of war. .Ml hail the silenced guns we consecrate, which, with 
the shot and shell piled in monumental decoration on this burial plot, are 
are henceforth dedicated as a military tribute to valor, lortitude and death." 




FIELD AND STAFF, FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY, I. N. G. 



ROSTEH, MAY 30, 1895. 

Page 38. COL. HENRY I.. Tl'RNER, Commanding. 

No, I. LIEUT.-COL. G. V. LAIIMAN. Second in Command. 

No. 2. MAJ. JOS. B. SANBORN. First Hatlalion. 

No 3. MAJ. EDGAR B. TOLMAN, Second Battalion. 

No. 4. MAI. JAS. M. EDDY. JR.. Thiid Battalion. 

No. 5. CAPT, VVM. L. DE REMER, Adjutant. 

No. 6. MAJ. CHARLES ADAMS. Surgeon. 

No. 7. CAPT. |. W. STREETER. Assistant Surgeon. 

No. 8. CAPT. H. W. THOMAS. Chaplain, 

No. 9. CAPT. A. L. BELL. Ouarterniaster, 

No. 10. CAPT. E. R. COX. Inspector Rifle Practice. 




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Then was heard a niuftlud dnuii roil, after which the corps formed in 
a line to the west of the monument and facing it, and Gen. Undervvoo( 
addressing Col. Henry L. Turner in command of the First regiment 
infantry, I. N. G., the tiring liody, again gave command: 

Gen. Underwood: '•Pay //le Jiiial,M\i.\v.\K\ Trihutk!" 

Whereupon Col. Turner with his regiment, 800 strong, formed in ai/ 
de saf with center west of the monument, the wings facing its north and 
south fronts, caused three volleys to be fired over the graves of the 6,000 
sleeping Confederates. 

Gen. Underwood: ".SV////;/ ///<', Bl'c.le! " 

Col. Turner caused to be blown a bugle 
"taps," and the regiment marched off the groum 
ing strains from its military band. 



"blare" and afterward 
at quick time to inspir- 



DECORATIXG THE MONUMENT. 



Gen. Underwood: "Z>(-(7V(?/(-, rHF. Monument! " 

Whereupon Miss Catherine Stewart, Miss Marion Sullivan and Mrs. 
R. L.Walker, with their floral attendants, the Misses Blanche and Laura 
McCoUum, also Miss Eliza Seldon Washington, escorted by six staff 
of-ficers, approached the inscription face of the monument, Mrs. Walker 
to the east. Miss Sullivan to the west and Miss Stewart in the center, and 
formed in line facing the monument, with the lady attendants, officers, 
male quartet and drummers in the rear. The ladies were dressed in white. 

Mrs. Walker advanced, and placing a laurel wreath on the easel at the 
northeast corner of the monument base, said: 

'Tn the east, to receive the refulgent light of the morning, as a just 
meed to the worth of the Confederates whose mortal remains are here 
monumented, 1 place this emblematic wreath in token of their honored 
remembrance on this occasion by friends, soutliern people and all broad 
and liberal men." and folding her arms across her bosom she knelt on a 
step of the monument base. 

Male quartet: '-All Hail the Honored Dead"' 

Miss Marion Sidlivan came forward, placed a Horal anchor on the easel 
at the northwest corner of the monument base, and said: "Here in 
the west, to receive the softened rays of the setting sun, I deposit this 
representative tribute - indicative of the //c/i' that those here buried, in 
answering the last muster call at the bar of immortal judgment, have 
experienced everlasting salvation," and folding her arms across her breast 
she likewise knelt on a step of the monument base. 

Male quartet: Amen! Amen!! Amen!!! 




PLAClXr. FLORAL DECORATIONS. 

LADY ASSISTANTS. 



No, I 
No. 2 
No. ,1 
No. 4 
No. 5 
No. f). 



MISS I-.I.IZA SELDON W.'\SHINGTON. Charleston, W. V; 

MISS CATHKRINE STEWART, Chicaeo, III. 

MISS MARION SULLIVAN, Cliicago, III, 

MRS, R L. WALKER, Atlanta, Ga, 

MISS BLANCHE McCOLLUM. Marietta. Ga. 

MISS LAURA McCOLLUM. Marietta, Ga. 



To all of wlioiii bi'lh oflicial and personal thanks are hereby extended. 



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Miss Catherine Stewart placed a white floral cross on the easel at the 
base, near the center of the monument, and said: "The chivalrous 
bravery of the mortal obtains honor amont; men; the conscientious 
desire and moral courage to do right, create a hope for the salvation of 
the soul; but the belief in the Savior, the Lor<l Jesus Christ, insures life 
everlasting. Notwithstanding the lives of these monumented soldiers 
were surrendered from causes incident to strife, still, in token C'f the 
consecration of their souls to God. f thus decorate this monument with 
the white cross of Christian purit\-," and wdth folded arms and bowed 
head she knelt before the monument. 

As tlie fady finished, Cien. Underwood said: "As God wills." to which 
all the people responded, -'Amen;' ami the male quartet chanted, in 
echo — "As God wills, Amen!! Amen!!" 

Miss Eliza Seldon Washington then advanced, anil recited: 




.\fter death, heroes are soon forgotten. 

Except by the great Father on high; 
For the world in haste has little to waste. 

On even the exalted that die. 



Hence a haven in heaven is solace 

To those who believe in the true God; 
Because of the promise of salvation 

Through the Savior. Jesus Christ, our Lord. 

[Roll of muttled drums.] 

When tlie drum-roll ceased, the lady assistants arose and Gen. Under- 
wood kneeling, uncovered, within the circle formed around the ladies, 
paid homage to the fair women who had participated in the beautiful 
formula. 

Gen. Underwood: "Ladies, I sincerely thank you for your memorial 
tribute to the honored dead, and chivalrously kneel to those fair and 
lovely who have thus consecrated the ordnance and decorated the monu- 
ment, and, as a representative of the Confederate soldier, pledge the 
living veteran soldier}' of the south to be no less true to a re-united 
nation than has lieen its dead to the loved cause, lost;" and arising, 
said: "The floral assistants and other ladies will now scatter the 
flowers. " 

The ladies then advanced and decorated the base of the monument, 
cannon and graves. 

Chairman Bolton: 'Tt is fitting that these ceremonies shall conclude 
with an appropriate invocation. The Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones will now 
pronounce the benediction." 







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BENEDICTION, 

I'.y KEV, JENKIN LLOVD JONES, 

Rev, Mr, Jones: ''MaN- the memory of these men who proved their 
faith by their faitlifuhiess and sealed their love with their lo\aIt)- 
abide in the world to prove that Thou, Infinite Father of All, juds^est 
not the act but the spirit, not the achievement but the aim. 

"They through strife won the peace that passeth all understanding. 
May we through peace complete the work they left undone by hastening 
the coming of Thy kingdom on earth as it is now in Heaven, amen." 

The ceremony being ended, Camp Chicago No. 8, United Con- 
federate Veterans, marched with floral tributes and, assisted by the 
ladies, decorated the graves of Federal soldiers in another part of the 
cemetery. 

EXTR.\CTS FROM THE CHICAGO PRESS, MAY 31, 1895, 

The dedication of the monument over the Confederate dead at Oakwoods passed oft 
yesterday in a manner so happy as to reflect credit on every one connected with it and 
to elicit universal congratulations. The opinion was general that the ceremony constituted 
an epoch in the life of the Nation and the formal close of the period of ill-will engen- 
dered by the war of the rebellion From the start of tiie southern visitors from the 
Palmer House in the morning to the benediction at Oakwoods in the afternoon there 
was not a trip, a mistake, or an unpleasantness. Confidence, respect and good will 
were the everywhere obvious results when the day closed. 

( /■//,■ Daily Inln -Ocan.) 

.Across the graves of their dead the survivors of the great struggle shook hands yes- 
terday; the war cry was hushed forever, and the hatchet was buried never to be 
uncovered by north or south again 

The scene at Oakwoods at the dedication of the Confederate monument was one 
unparalleled in history. Soldiers lay sleeping far from the homes where they were 
born, in a land which had held them captives, and around their quiet resting place stood 
great commanders of both armies, as well as the rank and file. 

Unmarked were the graves of the boys in gray, save by the great granite shaft, to 
be consecrated by prayer and benediction before the day was done. Not far from the 
unmarked mounds w-ere others with marble slabs at the head, the resting place of hun- 
dreds who had fought and died beneath the folds of the dear old flag. But yesterday it 
mattered not who wore the blue or wore the gray. From the southland came rich guer- 
don of flowers to mark the graves of her erstwhile foes, while the north laid on the 
southern soldier's grave tribute of fair blossoms. 

Brave men who thirty years ago had faced each other on the battlefield now met as 
brothers, and women assisted in the ceremonies which forever silenced guns heard at 
Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge. .Atlanta, Chickamauga, Kenne.saw mountain and 
Nashville. 




May 29 31, iS(j5. 
BIOGRAPHIC: 

Holman Green Piirinton was born at Bowdoin, Me., April 22, 1S47, and received a liberal education. 

At the age of 17 he left Bates College. Lewiston, Me.; enlisted as a recruit in Company B, Twenty-ninth regiment infantry. 

Maine volunteers. U. S. A., and served until the spring of 1866. 
After the war he taught school and finally entered commercial business in Lewiston. Me. He moved to Dover, N. H., thence lo 

Boston, and immigrated to Chicago after the great fire in that city in 1^71. where he still resides. 
He has variously served in the Illinois National Guard as first lieutenant and adjutant, afterward captain Company A, Sixth 

battalion; private, then captain Company I, First regiment infantry; captain and adjutant, and is now major, Second 

regiment infantry. 
In \eteian organizations he has been an active worker, and organized Columbia Post No. 706, G. A. R., of which he has been 

commander for four consecutive years, which office he still holds. 
He is a prominent Oddfellow and I-'ree Mason, and has tilled all the othces in the subordinate lodges and Templar bodies; and, 

for hfteen years, has commanded the famous St. Hernard Hrilt Corps of Chicago. 
Member of the Chicago .Athletic club and commander of the Cliicago Etjuestrian club. 




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Palms and magnolias were used in decoration, and the rude railin{»sof the speakers' 
stand were wound with bunting and festooned with gray floating Spanish moss. 

At the foot of the soldiers' monument was heaped great masses of blossoms. A 
floral cross stood at its base, and on either side was an anchor and wreath of roses and 
lilies. Over all stood watch the lonely figure which in the years to com" will teach 
generations yet unborn the lesson of forgiveness, love and peace. 

Yesterday it looked down upon thousands of people ass;ml)led hours before the car- 
riages carrying the distinguished guests arrived, and wlio stood jiatiently aw.uting them, 
heedless of the merciless rays of a scorching sun 

At the close of the dedicatory ceremonies in Oakwoods. the distin- 
guished visitors returned to the central part of the city, being tiriven in 
carriages through Washington park, along Drexel and Grand boulevards 
and on Michigan avenue from Thirty-first street to the Auditorium Hotel, 
where the balconies (specially reserved for the purpose) were occupied, 
and the general memorial parade witnessed by the southerners, their 
accompanying ladies and the committee. 

Later in the afternoon, the gentlemen of the party visited the clubs 
of Chicago, from each of which they had received written invitations of 
hospitable welcome; and otherwise entertained themselves until evening. 

At 8:00 p. m. Columbia Post, No. 706, G, A, R., Maj, H. G. Purin- 
ton, commanding, with its military band, and The ex-Confederate Associa- 
tion, Camp No. S. U. C, V. of Chicago, Lieut. -Col. Geo. Forrester, 
commanding, reported to Gen. Underwood at tlie Palmer House, and a 
little before 9:00 o'clock the party of southern visitors, the same who 
attended the reception at that hotel the evening previous, under escort of 
the combined detachments of Grand Army and Confederate veterans, 
were driven to the armor}- of the First regiment infantry L N. G., Six- 
teenth street and Michigan a\enue, where they were royally received. 



THF RECEPTION AT THE ARMORY 



Col. Henry L. Turner of the First regiment, was host for the occasion 
on behalf of the citizens' committee of 130. His regiment. 800 strong, 
forgot the marches of the day; forgot that it had tramped in the sun for 
many miles in the largest parade it has ever known; forgot that it was 
physically exliausted and unfit for service of any kind; forgot itself in the 
purpose of the hour to brighten the visit of the men and women who 
had come here from the land of sunshine and flowers and beautiful 
womanhood and magnificent manhood. 

The regiinent practically sacrificed itself to dut)', touched witli pleas- 
ure, the pleasure that is born of splendid achievement hallowed by the 
love of a great people, individually and collectively. 




SgAUD OF CO M, FIRST REC.IMENT INFANTRY I, N. G., AT A RALLY. 




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Thousands crowded in the armory to take part in tlie reception to tiie 
Confederate generals and tlie fair southern visitors who came to Chicago 
to attend the dedication of tiie monument at Oakwoods. Though the 
doors of the vast hall were thrown open at 7:00 o'clock and hundreds of 
guests drove up to the big gates early, the long wait until the southern 
visitors arrived passed quickly. The floor of the hall was left to the 
regiment, and the command "At rest" was given, and the bo)'s of tlie 
First stacked their arms until the guests arrived. 

The singers of the regiment did not remain silent, however, and the 
pathetic air, "Tenting To-night in the Old Camp dronnd." came from a 
hundred lusty throats. This was followed by "Hon't You Hear Dem 
Bells?'' Then came the regiment veil, but at 9:00 o'clock the merry 
voices were hushed as the sound of a band penetrated the armory. 

Like an echo could be heard the dashing, inspiriting strain "Dixie," 
and the mellow cadence became louder and louder as the Columbia Post 
band approached the armor) . Quickly the regiment presented arms, and 
Col. Henry L. Turner and the reception committee went to the grand 
entrance and greeted the part\- with most hospitable welcome. 

The guests were received with "three ruffles and three rolls," which 
is the highest honor paid any military officer. 

A mighty cheer rang out as the southern guests entered. Columbia 
Post, G. A. R. , marched into the square formed by the regiment, fol- 
lowed by The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago, and then lined up 
on one side of the hall as the guests marced to the platform reserved for 
them, the ladies being escorted to the balcou}'. A dress parade of the 
First regiment followed, together with the command marching in review 
past the southern generals and a fancN' drill bv Compan)' M completed 
the military exercises. 

A promenade concert followed the fancy drill and the following 
program was given undi r the leadership of J. F. Hastrawser: 



March, "General .\nthony Wayne" Alder. 

Overture "William Tell.'' 

Collocation from "Faust" Gounod. 

Selection of southern airs Coates. 

"American Patrol" Meacham. 

"Liberty Bell" Sousa. 

Patrol, "Blue and the Gra\" A. Densmore. 



The southern ladies waved their handkerchiefs and applauded as the 
First regiment bantl played a selection of southern airs. 




COMI'AXV COMMANHERS, l-'IKST RKCilMKNT INFAN'TKV, I X 

ROSTER ACCORDING TO RANK. 

lOS. H. BARNETT. Company D 
EDVV. H. SVVITZER, Company M 
WM F. KNOCH, Company E, 

B. F. PATRICK. JR., Company A. 
A L. BOLTE. Company C. 
WM. ]. SANDERSON. Cnnipai y h. 
S. W. SMITH, Company F 

C. B. SANDHAM, lompany I 
T, M. KENNEDY, Companv II. 
THOS. W. COLE, c oinpany K. 
A. M. DANIELS Company L. 

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The company tlien came down from the galleries ami crowded around 
the dais wliere the southern guests were seated. 

Many distinguished Chicagoans were presented to the Confederate 
generals. 

After this the people present were permitted to pass b}' the platform 
and shake hands with the visitors in an informal way. 

There were no formalities of any kind, but it was a most ha]ip\- affair 
and was honored by the presence of many people. 

As the party was breaking up cheers for the gray haired warriors of 
the south rang out in the First regiment armory, all doing honor to 
gallant men who had fought for the Confederacy. It was a real union of 
the bine and the gray and the hearts of the southerners warmed at the 
welcome they received. 

The action of the First regiment infantry 1. N. G. was without parallel 
in magnitude and unanimity of the various components of the command; 
and the support thereb\- given to the general harmonizing movement of 
the north toward the sonth was most propitious and valuable. 

The graceful act and military courtesy of firing the memorial volleys. 
so to speak, over the remains of dead heroes from the southland and the 
warmth of the after reception by the regiment and hearty individual 
greetings by its officers and soldiers, caused a thrill of appreciation in 
the hearts of all of Dixie's representatives; and the feeling was unani- 
mous that snch a body of soldiery had surpassed itself in the bestowing 
of military honors on the long buried dead and by the lavish courtesies 
extended to the southern guests during the occasion. 

To this must be addecf the whole souled hospitality of the citizens of 
Chicago, demonstrated liy the entertainments given by the wealthy and 
the unanimous and heart)- greetings by all classes, who with one accord 
joined in honoring former foes, come to pay homage tribute at the 
shrine of their valiant dead. 

No city could have done more, no people could have shown greater 
liberality: the church, the press, the state, united and vied with each 
other in the discharge of the dut\- of harmonization. One voice spoke 
in thanks, one heart bt-at with reciprocal impulse and with one eye tlie 
people throughout the south viewed the hospitable actions of Chicago's 
citizens and the deeds of Col. Turner and his men. 



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May 29-31. 1895. 

lUOGRAPHIC: , , ^ , , u 

Thomas Stewart guincey was born May 28, 1852, at Belleville. Ontario. Canada At 12 years of age he was bugler of the 
Argyle Light infantry, and in i,S7S he was one of the volunteers on active duty in Minnesota, and assisted in the capture 
of the Younger brothers after the Northfield robbery. As lieutenant of the Chicago Hussars, he commanded the 
detachment of his troop in charge of the Stock Yards during the great strike of i«94; member of Troop A Illinois National 
Guard, organizer and captain of the Black Hussars, the troop which acted as escort at the dedication of the Confederate 
monument in Chicago. May 30. 1895. Resides in Chicago and is actively engaged in business. 



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CARRIAGE DRIVE AND DEPARTURE. 

On the 31st the guests arose late and refreshed, experiencing little 
or no fatigue from the constant tax upon every moment of time, termin- 
ating in the reception and supper at the armory tlu' precutling evening; 
and, when the committee came to drive them through the parks, nearly 
all were ready to go, and the carriages were filled with the joyous 
sightseers. 

The party was driven across Chicago river out Dearborn avenue to 
Lincoln Park and through its beautiful ilrives, passing by the Grant 
statue, out the Sheridan road, and returning through the park via the 
exquisite flower-bed route to Lincoln statue, where the second sleepiing 
place of the Confederate dead was pointed out, and finally taken through 
the principal streets of Chicago's business district that the tall buildings 
might be seen in numbers and their great heights realized; then to the 
Masonic Temple, where many held their breath while being hurried up 
the twenty-three stories to the top in limited express elevators, and, after 
enjoying the magnificent city and lake view, thence to the "Palmer" to 
rest, dine and prepare for the trip to Cincinnati at night. Many of the 
gentlemen did the clubs and "saw the town" in the afternoon, and all 
were driven under escort of the Black Hussars to the Twelfth street 
depot at 8:00 p. m.. where the party boarded the cars and was whirled 
away southward on the "Big Four's" most sumptuous train. 

On arriving at the depot Capt. T. S. Quincey wheeled his hnssars 
into line and gave a parting "present" as the old generals drove past; 
and afterward the hussars dismounted, entered the depot and paid 
individual military homage to the heroes that were leaving. This double 
courtesy extended so soldierly by the gallant captain was more than 
appreciated, and the military bearing of the horsemen and their black 
chargers caused the eyes of the cavalry generals to flash with delight, 
and all joined with heartiest thanks in bidding farewell. It was in this 
manner that Chicago was bade adieu, ever to be remembered by the 
guests it so lavishly and superbly entertained. 

After a night trip of special travel, with rare comfort, the placid 
waters of the Ohio were reached and that beautiful river with the 
picturesque hills skirting its Kentucky bank kept in view during the 
twenty miles run to Cincinnati, where the spacious and elegant apart- 
ments of its roval Grand Hotel awaited them. 




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MESSRS. CORRE .V- SHEARS, 

Proprietors CJraiul Hotel, rincinnati. 

In the reception and entfrtaiunient of the southern L;uests b)' tile 
Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati, the entertainment committee pos- 
sessed greater advantages for extending hospitalities than are to be found 
in anv other citv of the Union. The party was received at the Grand 
Central station, conducted across Tiiird street to the spacious elevators 
at the special entrance to the Grand Hotel, which, located as it is 
between Third and Fourth streets on Central avenue — three principal 
thoroughfares of the city — is most conveniently arranged for the traveling 
public; thence taken through a spacious and well lighted corridor to the 
magnificent rotunda that is not surpassed bv the office auditorium of an\' 
hotel on earth. Its many fluted columns, expansive area of tessellated 
floors, together with its magnificent marble stairwa)-, copied from the 
stairway of Ca:'sar's palace, in Rome, produced a feeling similar to that 
felt by the traveler on the occasion of his first visit to the Grand Opera 
House of Paris. The decorations in cream and gold, enhanced by the 
softened light through its loft\- ceiling of cut glass during the day. and 
at night by brilliant, direct and reflected light from hundreds of electric 
burners, lent enchantment to the imagination of the guests in most 
pleasing effects throughout the limits of the entire office exchange — so 
much so, that the rotunda of the "Grand" was recognized as constituting 
one of the attractions of Cincinnati, and \)v nian\-, considered the most 
beautiful public room in the country. 

The hotel was fcuunl sumptuous, fashionable and homelike, with four 
passenger elevators, latest sanitar)- plumbing, the broadest of corridors, 
most spacious and elegantly furnished parlors, commodious convention 
and princely dining halls, breakfast and banquet rooms, large and well 
lighted chambers possessing every modern comfort, on both the Amer- 
ican and European plans, with a cuisine perfect in all its appointments, 
a free telephone exchange and ever\' other character of convenience, and 
with a capacity for entertaining i,ooo guests, and is undoubtedly the 
hotel of the •■Queen City. " At this hostelry the ladies and gentlemen 
of the party who had just arrived from Chicago were most hospitably 
received and the best that the house afforded placed at their disposal. 

The assistance rendered the committee by the proprietors, Messrs. 
Corre & Shears, who inherited the talent for keeping a hotel from their 
fathers, prominent old school bonifaces, enabled it to royally entertain 
the southern representatives. 

For the courtesies shown by these well-known hotel men through their 
personal donations and entertainments, the fullest thanks are extended. 




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1861; educated in Cincinnati public school and graduated at 



BIOGRAPHIC: 

Maurice J. Freiberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. January 7. 

Wooodward High School. 1.S79. 
Secretary Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, 1S92-93: vice-president in 1893-94 and 1S94-95. president, 1895-96. 
Chairman Cincinnati committee for entertainment of Confederate quests, June 1, 1895. 



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The part\' on reaching Cincinnati, the early morninf( of Saturday, 
June I, were met at the depot by Chairman Freiberg and other members 
of the entertainment committee, appointed to receive the guests, and 
taken to the Grand Hotel as stated; Mr. E. O. McCormick of the "Big 
Four Route" was specially assiduous in his courtesies. 



CINCINNATI'S OFFICIAL TRIBUTl-: TO THE 

DISTINGUISHEi:» SOUTHERNERS 

RECEPTION AND ENTERTAINMENT 

IN THK CITY AND AT FORT, THOMAS, KY,, JUNE i. 1895. 

The following extracts from the city press of Cincinnati (chiefly 
Trihuii,- reportorial ), June 2, 1^95, and stenographic reports, form 
a succinct account of the visit of the distinguished southerners to the 
"Queen City" and includes the reception and luncheon given the ex-Con- 
federates and party at Fort Thomas, Ky. : 

For the first time in its history Cincinnati was laid siege to yesterday morning and 
captured a short time afterward witliout offering a single protest or making even a show 
of resistance 

The men who captured the city have fought many long and bloody battles before, 
but it is doubtful if they ever had as easy a time achieving a martial victory as when 
they marched into the yueen City. The attack was made at 7:30 o'clock and the scene 
of the surrender was the Grand Central depot. 

In other words, the party of distinguished e.\-Confederate oliicers were welcomed 
with open arms and the city virtually turned over to them. 

As the train bearing the party from Chicago, where these famous men have lately 
assisted in dedicating a monument to the soldiers of the south, who died in the service, 
pulled into the station, the commutee from the Chamber of Commerce appointed to 
meet them was there and welcomed the old heroes and their wi\es and daughters most 
heartily. 

Introductions were made, baggage seen to, and the guests of the city conducted to 
the Grand Hotel, where, after removing the traces of travel and fatigue, they enjoyed a 
well-served breakfast 

The party consisted of the following Lieut -Gen. Jas. Longstreet, daughter, and 
Mrs Sanders and daughter; Maj.-Gen. Matthew C- Butler. Maj -Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. 
Maj-Gen Harry Heth and daughter, Maj, -Gen. S. G. French, Maj.-Gen. L L. 
Lomax. wife, and Miss Belle Armstrong; Maj.-Gen, H K\d r)ouglas, Brig-Gen 
Marcus J. Wright, wife, and Miss Eliza Washington; Brig -Gen. Eppa Hunton, Solicitor- 
General Holmes Conrad and wife. Col Albert Akers and wife, Col. Irvin. Capt Drew 
and wife. Gen. Fayette Hewitt. Maj, Henry T. Stanton. M.aj. L. C. Norman, Capt 
Littlepage and wife. Maj. Frank V Robinson. Misses V. and L, Mitchell and Miss Cox, 
Maj. Robert W. Hunter and Gen. John C. Underwood. 

Time has dealt kindly with the men who fought and bled for their cause, and with 
few exceptions their str.aight, erect forms and militar}' bearing made them the observed 





BIOGRAPHIC: 

Ernest Oliver McConnick was born in Lafayette, Ind,, Aprils. 185S. Educated in the public schools of his native city, and 
first entered railroad service as timekeeper, construction department, of the Lake Erie iS: Western railway in 1879. 
Since that time he has bten consecutively with freight department of the Louisville, New Albany &. Chicago railway 
at Lafayette, Ind., general agent Great Eastern Fast Freight Line. Louisville, Ky , and later as cit> ticket agent of the 
L. N. A. & C. railway; was transferred to Chicago in similar capacity and promoted to general northern paseenger 
agent, then general passenger agent of same road. Later, general passenger and ticket agent of the Cincinnati, Hamil- 
ton & Dayton railroad and, in September, 1893. he became passenger traffic manager of the "Big Four Route," — the 
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago lV St. Louis railway. 

President Young Men's Mercantile Library, and member of the Queen City and Cuvier clubs. Cincinnati, Ohio. 

He has attained his present station in railway circles by persistent eftort and fidelity to his employer's interests: is easily 
approached under all circumstances and popular among his colleagues as well as Ihe traveling and general public. 




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of all observers The \oulhfiil appear.ince. the elastic step, the hrij^hl eyes and haml- 
some carriage of these great men were ceaselessly commented on by those who saw 
them, and their striking appearance alone was enough to attract admiring attention 
to them. 

Grasping the right hand of fellowship that the (Jneen City so heartily offered them, 
these soldiers of the rebellion caine into the city with the kindest of feelings for all 
They will leave it to-night with that feeling intensified and strengthened a hundred fold 

In the hotel office for some time after breakfast the party met and talked with their 
new-found or long-lost friends and many an interesting story of bygone battles or anec- 
dotes of army and navy were to be heard. The entire party seemed to be feeling in the 
best of spirits and ready for the delightful day which was to follow 

The famous old Gen Longstreet. whose age shows perhaps more than any of the 
others, was the only one among them who hesitated at the ride. His tall, angular, but 
soldierly figure was surrounded by his old friends and comrades in the office, but he is 
not as spry as he once was and his hearin.g is nearh' gone. 

In order to save his strength for the banquet at night he decided finally not to 
accompany the party, and assisted by his colored servant, a reminder of that halcyon 
period "befo' the wah," he retired to his room, there to rest and recuperate for a few 
hours his lost strength after the journey from Chicago, This was a great disappointment 
to many, especially one group of honest workingmen who were waiting on the pavement 
in front of the hotel. One of them was heard to remark; "I'd give anything I've got 
to catch sight of the general's face once again I ain't seen it since f fought with 
him in '63 " 

Everyone seemed to want ti.^ do something for the visitors to show the regan.l in 
which they were held and to make them feel how closely allied is Cincinnati to the south 
in both her commercial interests and her social life The spirit of welcome was over 
the assembly, handshaking and hearty greetings, such as 'I'm proud to meet you. sir: 
I am more than glad to have you in our city." were heard on every side 

As for attending to their wants and desires, they were fairly anticipated in every 
case. Even the \'enerable colored servants were waited on by the younger, agil^ hotel 
porters antl their e\'er\' %vant supplied. 

Gen, John C. Underwood has acted as press agent and general manager from the 
first, in this truly remarkable gathering of notables, and he played his role to perfection 
yesterday. Dealing out answers and papers and information with equal liberality, he 
kept track without apparent effort of all that went on elsewhere, and directed the movf- 
ments of his party whenever called upon. To him is due the honor of the erection of 
a monument; the like of which has never been seen before — a monument erected on the 
soil of the victor to the memory of the vanquished. 

Shortly after io;oo o'clock a line of carriages drew up in front of th ■ holil, and the 
party filed out of the ladies' entrance and into the conveyances, ready for th'ir dri\e 

Col E. R Monfort, Wm McAllister. Capt J. D Parker, James M Glenn. Col. 
Brent Arnold and E. O. McCormick acted as escorts and. assisted by Mr Freiberg 
ht Iped the visitors off. 

A crowd of old soldiers filled the sidewalk as the old officers and their wives .md 
daughters took their places, and hoarse w^hispers of "there goes Lee." "I can never 
forget our Douglas," "Hunton is still with the boys in gray." and the like were heard 

Driving up Fourth street to 'Vine, up 'Vine to Seventh, Seventh to Plum, the line of 
vehicles made its way to the Cits' Hall, where the distinguished guests were welcomed 
by the mayor Entering the "building from Plum stret-t, the famous southerners filed 




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into Mayor Caldwell's office and were greeted most heartily by His Honor. Almost the 
first to grasp his hand was Gen. M. C. Butler, who exclaimed: 

"Hullo! Caldwell, you're here, are you'" 

Then, as the two grasped hands, the general laughed and reminded his comrades 
that he had seen the mayor in Washington several years ago, in Congress. 

When Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who has shaved his beard off of late years and looks 
younger than ever in consequence, took the mayor's hand the latter said, "I have never 
had the pleasureot meeting you. General, but I would know your face, nevertheless. It 
is a familiar one, because of the many picljires I have seen of you." 

Gen. Lee smiled and said he could return the compliment. Then the coterie of 
handsome men— for such was the verdict^f all who saw them — went through the city 
building, finding much to admire and comment favorably on therein. 

After the building had been looked at from outside and in, the party bade Mayor 
Caldwell good-by, and taking the carriages again, drove to the foot of the Mt. Adaras 
incline. Here the conveyances were left in charge of the drivers, and the visitors and 
their escorts conducted to the top on the incline, it proving a novel and untried 
experience for some of them. 

From the power house they rode to the Art Museum in the cars, and were shown 
through it with commendable pride by those who accompanied them. The strongest 
expressions of approval and admiration for the building and the works of art contained 
therein were made by the guests, and the view from the park brought forth much 
admiration. Some of them declared the museum unsurpassed in many respects by any 
in the country, and they freely congratulated the Cincinnatians of the party on the 
possession of the same. 

From the museum the party once more descended to the city and drove to the 
Chamber of Commerce, where a mammoth reception was tendered them by the entire 
chamber. The great room was filled to overflowing with those eager to see and hear the 
renowned southerners and at the stroke of 12:00 o'clock the party arrived and were 
royally welcomed. 

The Symphony orchestra played many martial airs, alternating the "Star Spangled 
Banner " with "Dixie," assymbolical of the meeting of the men then present — the north 
and the south. These airs brought forth cheers from both sides, and it was pleasant and 
touching to observe the hearty applause given by all the visitors, ladies and gentlemen, 
when the former air was rendered. When "Dixie's " sweet strains were sent floating 
through the big chamber the applause was deafening, and cheers and hat-wavings were 
the order of the moment. 

In charge of the party, the entertainment committee led them to the register, where 
once again those famous names were placed upon the page, accompanied by those of 
the ladies, who caught the spirit of the thing and insisted on writing their own names. 
The chamber was tastefully decorated in "old glories," and the great flag of the chamber 
was floating over the street outside, signifying what an auspicious affair was going on 
within. Hundreds of old soldiers were here also, to talk of the past and point out this 
or that great man under whom they had fought. The speaker's desk was hung with 
the emblem of liberty also, and signs reading "welcome" were nearly as numerous as 
the pleasant words said to and of the strangers. 

President Glenn of the Chamber of Commerce, began the exercises here by a very 
brief address, in which he asked all present to join in welcoming those distinguished 
men, now present, in the heartiest of manners. He introduced Gen. Underwood, w-ho 
said he had asked these southern gentlemen to come to Cincinnati because he wanted 




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llu'm to see the great gateway of the south and to understand how Cincinnati felt 
toward them, a feeling that was all friendship and brotherly affection. He declared the 
south to be the greatest section of all in this country, from which much could be 
expected, and that so great was its undeveloped wealth that when it was developed it 
would enrich the entire United States. Cincinnati, he said, was the great point of all 
others from which to reach those great states lying between the Ohio and the Gulf ami 
the key to increased prosperity for them and it. 

He then introduced Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the hero of Virginia, and one of the greatest 
cavalry leaders of the war. 

Gen. Lee said he voiced the sentiments of the party he was with, he knew, when he 
said he appreciated and thanked the citizens of Cincinnati most heartily for the warm 
reception they had tendered the .southerners. He said the dedication of the monument 
which they had just come from in Chicago, marked as a great milestone, an epoch in the 
Nation's progress. It was a great, grand and noble Nation, and when the north and 
south understood each other more fully, as he knew Ihey were doing now more every 
day, it would be greater and grander. He said the glory of this common, united country 
was their glory now as much as the north's, and they were proud of a common govern- 
ment and a common flag 

He did not propose to tell those present that the State of Ohio was formed out of the 
state from which became, but it was so, and he was proud and glad to know that the two 
states were bound by ties of commerce now. and ties of steel rails, but best of all by the 
tiss of friendship and brotherhood. 

'Virginia would unite with Ohio in making this one great, grand and undivided 
country, now and forevermore. 

Gen Hunton followed Gen. Lee. and was introduced by Gen. Underwood, almost 
before he knew what the latter was saying. He said, with a smile, that of all mean 
enterprises he had ever encountered in the war, an ambuscade was the meanest, and 
this was what the call on him for a speech was. However, he would testify from the 
bottom of his heart that the thanks of all his party went out to the overflowing kindness 
and patriotism which had been show-n them here. He called them fellow citizens and he 
felt he had a right to do so. Though the war was a great calamity and they recognized 
it as such, he felt it still had its compensations, for now that the blue and gray were 
indissolubly united again they could "whip a world of armies." This sentiment was 
greeted with cheers 

Gen. Butler of South Carolina, and a great ca\'alry leader in the rebellion, declared 
he had also been taken unawares, but he was more unfortunate than his friend. Gen 
Hunton. The latter had his manuscript in his pocket, but he had not. He then spoke 
of the great reception and monument dedication at Chicago, and declared the war was 
a family quarrel settled then forever. " We fought the last fight in Chicago," said he, 
"and from this on we are absolutely one people" 

He poured hot shot into the politicians for keeping the breach between the north 
and south open so long, and declared the reconciliation between the old soldiers was 
frank, candid and honest, and if any outsider ever tries in the future to interfere with 
us. joined together we will whip him. He warmed up at the applause this remark 
elicited, and declared that the old soldiers of the Confederacy were still young and will- 
ing enough to stand side by side with the men in blue in any conflict that might come; 
"and then see if we are sincere or not when we say that we are going to protect that 
glorious flag just as quickly and as earnestly as you" 




BRIG.-GHN. MARCUS J. WRIGHT, 

DURISC; THE SIXTIES. 




May 29-June 2, 1S95. 



BIOGRAPHIC: 

Marcus Joseph Wrielit was born at Purdy. Tenn.. June 5, 1S31. Educated in common school and the academy at Purdy. Clerk 
of the Common Law and Cliancery Court of Mempliis for eight years before the war. Lieutenent-colonel One Hundred 
and Fifty-fourth (Senior.i regiment infantry Tennessee voluntetrs, C. S. A., April 4, 1S61; assistant adjutant-general, 
siaff of Gen. H. F. Cheatham, early 1S62; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S.. December 13, 1862. 

Commanded regiment in battles of Belmont and Shiloh and brigade in battles of Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge; staff 
officer at surrender of Munifordsville, and battle of Perryville. Ky., commanded the post and district of Atlanta, district of 
west Tennessee and north Mississippi, and engaged in all the battles of the Army of the Tennessee, except during the 
Atlanta campaign when he was serving in lower Georgia. 

Sheriff of Shelby county, Tenn., for two years after the war. 

Agent of the War Department. U. S., for the collection of Confederate records, since July i, 1878, 

V' ice-president. District of Columbia Society Sons of the American Revolution; member of the American, of the Tennessee, of 
the Louisiana and of the X'irginia historical societies, and author of "Life of Gov. Wm. Blount and of Gen. Winfield 
Scott." and manyother notable biographies in AppUton's Cyclopedia 0/ American Biography, etc. 



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Maj. Holmes Conrad, solicitor-general of the LFnited States, ioUoweil with a l)rief 
and earnest address concerning the monument they had dedicated, and also went lor 
the politicians who keep alive sectional hatred 

Gen Wright was next called on and spoke of the work entailed on him as follows; 

BRIG.-C;EN. MARCUS J. WRIGHT. 
Of Washington, D C. 

Brig. -Gen. Wright; '•.!/■)■. Ih-.^iul.'iit ,inJ C-iilleuwn of the Ciminnali I^oatd of Trad,- — 
I fear that a response to the call of my friend, Gen, Underwood, for me to address you 
in regard to the publication of the war records, will tax your patience, especially after 
so many eloquent addresses by distinguished gentlemen, representing both the Federal 
and Confederate armies. But as you seem to wish to hear me. I will make you a brief 
statement, as requested. 

"The first work in preparing the records of the civil war for publication was inaug- 
urated by the late Gen. E D. Townsend, adjutant-general of the United States army, 
under an act of Congress of date May ig. 1864. 

"The first real work began under act of Congress June 23. 1S64. which provided 
means for the secretary of war to begin the publication of the records of the war, both 
Union and Confederate. Since then appropriations have been made from time to time 
to continue the work. Under the present law 11,000 copies are printed and distributed 
to such persons, libraries and institutions as the members of the Forty-seventh Congress 
have designated to the secretary of war. with 1,000 copies for the executive depart- 
ments. 1,000 copies for officers of the army and contributors to the work, and the 
remaining copies to be sold at cost of publication, with ten per cent added 

"These records contain nothing that is not strictly official. There is no editing except 
in arrangement of matter chronologically and noting absence of a paper referred to as 
'not found,' and the insertion in brackets of full name of person when not given in 
original paper. 

"The Confederate records were scattered all over the country, in the possession of 
various persons, and it has been my duty to collect them. On stating in a circular, 
which I very freely distributed every year, and personally stating to persons in possession 
of Confederate records that the object of the government was to publish a full and 
complete record of the war on both sides, I have had little difficulty in gathering the 
Confederate papers. As a matter of course, the Confederate records are not as complete 
as those of the Union army but by diligent search we have been enabled to make that 
record very satisfactory. 

"These records are divided into four series. The first series will contain the 
formal reports, both Union and (.'onfederate. of all operations of both armies from the 
beginning to the end of the war. The campaigns are arranged in chronological order 

"The second series will contain correspondence, orders, reports and returns. 
Union and Confederate, in regard to prisoners of war, and state and political prisoners. 

"The third series will contain correspondence, orders, reports and returns of Union 
authorities not relating to subjects of the first two series. 

"The fourth series will contain correspondence, orders, reports and returns of the 
Confederate authorities similar to that indicated for the Union army of the third series. 

"It may be that the very valuable and interesting diplo?natic correspondence of the 



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Confederate authorities will also be embraced in the publication, as it will throw much 
light on matters now but little known. 

"No other government has ever made such a publication of a civil war, and 1 
attribute to this publication much of the good feeling and patriotism now existing in 
our common country. We are all proud of American valor, and these books are the 
best evidences on that subject. We are greatly gratified at the reception given us in 
Chicago and Cincinnati, and will take home with us very kind remembrances of your 
hospitality and courtesy." 

Gen. Kyd Douglas, the leader of the famous Light Brigade, was then called out. 
He started by saying that he never before had been in a Chamber of Commerce and 
knew nothing about the ways of its members. He had not uttered a hundred words 
before it was seen that he was a man of unusual ability. He said he had always 
desired to join the Society of Cincinnatus. and he was glad he could do it now. He said 
the Nation had been rent by fire and flame, but the sweet waters of the Potomac and 
the Ohio would reunite it, and this was the message be brought. The Star Spangled 
Banner was good enough for them all now He dwelt at some length on the horrors of 
war and consequent bloodshed, and paid a glowing tribute to the hospitality of the 
northern people. The scenes witnessed yesterday, he declared, seldom take place on 
the panorama of history. He knew nothing about trade, but he knew it followed good 
will, and certainly now trade would come north and go south. 

Gen. Harry Heth, a hero of Gettysburg, who got further north in that memorable 
battle than anyone else, now living, on the southern side, was next to speak He said 
that Cincinnati had captured them to-day. but the city would remember the time, thirty- 
three years ago, when he had come near capturing it. 

Col. Spooner of the Union Veteran Legion, asked that the old soldiers be allowed 
to shake hands with the famous men present before they left the floor, which they did. 
The party then adjourned to the Queen City Club house, where an elegant repast was 
served in its commodious and exquisitely appointed dining room 



THE I'AKTY GOES TO EOKT THOMAS. KY. 

At 2:15 o'clock two special cars, offered for the use of the guests by the street rail 
way company, were boarded at Fountain square and the delightful trip to Fort Thomas 
made. The beautiful natural scenery along the way was spoken of by all and greatly 
admired. The talk took as many turns as the track itself, and was not confined to 
military affairs at all. 

A telegram to Gen Underwood from Gen Schofield was passed around one car It 
read: "I hope the distinguished Union and Confederate soldiers who may visit Cincinnati 
upon invitation of the Chamber of Commerce will pay a visit to the troops at Fort 
Thomas, Ky., where I am sure they will receive a most cordial welcome 1 will wire 
the commanding officer of Fort Thomas that he may expect such a visit." 

When the party arrived at the fort they were met by carriages and driven to the post 
headquarters, where Col. Cochran and staff received them. They were invited to the 
reception rooms and there met by the officers and the ladies of the garrison and 
entertained right royally. 

A bountiful and palatable luncheon was served, and the ride from the city had fully 
prepared the party to enjoy the good things of the "spread " The iced course was 
scarcely finished before patriotic toasts were drank in the most excellent of military 
punches 



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Col. Citcliran was called iov on all (juarters, and, mounting a cliaii'. in iiis soldierly 
manner said: 

COL. M, A, COCHRAN, 
U, S. Army. 

'•Gt'iilliiiiin iiihl C«iiir,i,U-s: The coninianding general of the array wired information 
of your coming, and in extending these hastily prepared hospitalities the hearty good 
will with which our reception is made is offered to supply any lack of formality. 
Soldiers need little etiquette around the festive board in the club-room of a military 
post. The draughts with which our patriotism has been regaled have also served to 
renew the comradeship of the 'profession of arms,' for there is scarcely a ciii\.'ilrous tie 
so strong as that caused through service in battle, whether shoulder to shoulder or as 
soldiers of opposing forces. The thrill of excitement caused by the constantly changing 
situations on a stricken field, adds to its charm, and has often prompted the dashing 
bravery so frequently exhibited by American soldiery, on both sides, during our late war. 

"I am more of a soldier than a speech-maker, yet I would in my military way 
extend to you, one and all, the heartiest of welcomes to Fort Thomas, and shall rely 
on the brilliant sparkle the ladies have thrown into the occasion by their presence, to 
ornament the naturally beautiful surroundings of the post and stamp the visit indelibly 
in your memories. Having drank to 'The Government,' 'The Flag,' and The Army, I 
now propose an additional toast: 'To the true comradeship of the soldier,' with the 
hope that the next war will find us drinking out of the same canteen." (Vociferous 
applause and a perfect crush to obtain the hand-shake.) 

Many of the distinguished ex-Confederate generals were called on, and they made 
short addresses, accepting the courtesies so lavishly extended, complimenting the com- 
mandant and officers on the martial surroundings and praising the ladies for the charm 
of their presence. 

The guests then, on invitation, repaired to the balconies and pavilion on the parade 
ground and witnessed a "special dress parade" by the regiment, for their benefit, which 
was highly enjoyed by all. 

The old commanders say there have lieen many and excellent changes in the tactics 
since they were in the field. Tlie bluft, which Mr. Glenn asked them to visit before 
they left, commanding such a magnificent view of the river, was visited next, and 
unqualified admiration expressed by all. some declaring there was nothing like it else- 
where in America. At last the party reluctantly returned to the city, thoroughly 
enjoying the quick trip on the summer special cars. They reached Fountain square at 
5:30, and transferring to other special cars, were whirled away to the Grand Hotel, there 
to prepare for the banquet a few hours later. 

The entire day was one of great pleasure and interest to all, and the greatest of the 
souths citizens will return to it full of Cincinnati's wonderful commercial enterprise 
and its unexcelled situation between the north and south, and fully prepared to second 
and substantiate its claim as the key to the great New South 



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JSanquet 

UNDER THK AUSPICKS OF THE 

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 



0roani5ation. 

JAMES M GLENN. President of the Chamber 

Commtttee on Entertainment. 

MAURICE J FREIBERG, Vice-I'resident of the Chamber, Ch.iirman. 

\VM. McCALLISTER B, W, CAMPBELL H, LEE EARLY 

H. H. MEYER E, O. McCOR.MICK 

RALPH PETERS BRENT ARNOLD JOS, J. HOOKER 

S. M. FELTON ARCHER BROWN 

R W, WISE 

THE PRESIDENT, Ex-officio. 



In addition to the com 

Gen, J. D, Cox, 

Rev, Dudley W, Rhodes, 

."Albert Lackman, 

F, M. Huschart, 

Wm, L, Hunt, 

J W. Biles, 

Col. S, D, Maxwell, 

J N, Wolliscroft, 

Capt, Jas, P. Jackson, 

.A. G, Corre. 

D, C, Shears, 

E, L, Heinsheimer, 
E. T, Osborn, 

L L. Sadler. 

C. TiUinghast, 

Henry J, Gro.ssius, 

Dr. Joseph Ransohoff. 

E, S, Grant, 

J, C, Harper, 

J. W. Bailey, 

John W, Paul, 

.•\. B. Voorheis, 

A. Ballard of Texas, 



mittee, those present, besides 

Hon John .\- Caldwell. 
Col. C. B. Hunt, 
Adam Smyrl. 
E- P, Wilson, 
J. Walter Freiberg, 
S W. Trost, 
Hon J. Ij. Foraker, 
Dr C. P. Brent, 
James D. Parker, 
Louis Kramer, 
T. J, Wyscarver, 
Col. J, M, Arnold, 
Edward Colston, 
D. B, Martin, 
Geo H. Campbell, 
Jas. M Southgate, 
David J- Workum, 
W, W, Lamar, 
Gen. Michael Ryan, 
C. H. Kellogg, 
Major H. P. Lloyd, 
J. T. Carew, 
Herman Goepper, 



the guests from soiithkind, were: 

Col, M. A. Cochran, U, S A. 

M. E. Engalls, 

N. J Hoban, 

R. Jackson, 

J. L, Workum, 

Geo N Stone 

J- G. Schmidlapp, 

Capt. L. R. Keck, 

Rev. Geo. .A. Thayer, 

C. M HoUoway, 

Col L. Marbeit, 

O. G. Murray, 

F. D. Comstock, 

A. M. Stimson, 

Julius Fleishiuann, 

Paris C. Brown, 

G T. Miller, 

A H, McLeod, 

F, B, Wiborg, 

W, L tiranger, 

Julius Dexter, 

Wm H -Alms, 

F. A. Rothier. 



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ADDRESS OF WELCOME. J. M. Glenn, pres't 

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 



RESPONSE. 



Gen John C. Underwood 



l?cn. 3. 5>. COl. Cca-jimniitci-. 
; OUR UNITED COUNTRY. . Solicitor Gen . Holmes Conrad 



3. CINCINNATI. 

The Gateway of the South. 



Maj. H. p. Lloyd 



3. THE SOLDIER IN POLITICS. 



4. THE OLD HAVE FORGIVEN , 

THE YOUNG HAVE FORGOTTEN. 



Gen. Eppa Hunton 



Gen M. J. Ryan 



5. THE PATRIOTIC SOUTH. 



Maj. R. W. Hunter 



6. THE ARMY AND NAVY. 

7. THE SOLDIER IN PEACE AND WAR, 



Cm. M. A. Cochran 



Gen H. Kyd Douglas. 



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THE BANQUET. 

The baiKjUL't was ser\ed in Cont;ress hall of tliL- Grand Hotel and 
was spread for 100 guests, the table being continuous and arranged 
in the sliape of the letter U, with President Glenn, Gens. Cox and 
Hunton, Col. Cochran. Majs. Llo\d and Conrad and other speakers 
seated around the convex side of the center section. 

Before the covers were removed President Glenn called upon Rev. 
Dudle\' W. Rhodes to bless the repast and firoceedings. which he did by 
a most admirable and appropriate ^i,^rdit-. The gentlemen comprising 
the party were then seated and partook of and enjoyed the many good 
things, placed before them, and the indi\'idualities of the social board. 

The onlv regret was the absence of Ciens. Longstreet, Fitz Lee anti 
Butler, the former being obliged to keep his room in consequence of 
indisposition caused bv fatigue and the intense heat, and the two latter 
having been hurriedly called to the capital by wire. But like everything 
of even a semi- military nature, sorrows are made to give place to 
pleasures, and the wine and hilarious spirits of the party flowed with 
rivalling rapidity and contentment reigned supreme. 

After the cigars had been passed Mr. E. C). McCormick left the room 
very unceremoniously, so much so that his departure caused remarks and 
all sorts of reasons were given for his hast}' retreat. However, he 
returned a few minutes later, escorting the ladies, who had made the trip 
to Kentucky in the afternoon, and graced the hospitable reception at 
Fort Thomas. As they entered, everyone arose and prolonged applause 
was the salute with which they were greeted, for all recognized that they 
would not only surround the proceedings with the charm of feminine 
beauty and culture, but also add to the pleasure of the occasion through 
the delights brouglit by their presence. 

When the room had quieted the representative of the cit\-'s commerce 
arose and spoke as follows: 



JAMES M. GLENN, 

President Chamber of Commerce. Cincinn.'iti 

President Glenn: "A/v Frioids from the South, Laiiies and Geiitlemfn- 
"As president of the Chamber of Commerce, representing the business 
community of this cit\-, I now officialh' welcome 3'ou to Cincinnati, the 
great municipal gateway between \ our section and mine. If 1 possessed 



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May 29-June 2, 1895. 
BIOGRAPHIC 

Albert Akers was born in Appomattox county, Va., January 6. 1S41. Educared at Lynchburg. Va., and Western Military 
Institute. Nashville, Tenn. On tlie breaking out of the war he was appointed drill master to the Second Tennessee 
infantry; soon commissioned a hrst lieutenant in the regiment, and commanded his company in the battle of Shiloh, 
April 6. 1862, where he was desperately wounded, a musket ball passing entirely through his body. Left on the battle- 
field for dead, he fell into the hands of tlie Federals and was removed to Cincinnati and kept in hospital until October, 
1S62. He was then taken to Camp Chase, thence to Cairo. 111., and from there to Vicksburg. Mis-., and exchanged, 
November, 1862. He was sent to the parole hospital at Jackson. Miss., and afterward granted a furlough; went to and 
remained at Lynchburg. Va., until May, 1863. when he reported for duty at Richmond. He there learned that in the 
belief that he was dead, his funeral discourse had been preached in Nashville, his commission vacated; that the captain 
of his company had fallen in battle, and the promotion to which he was thereby entitled had passed to another. How- 
ever, an order was issued from the war department restoring him to his command and giving hini a commission as 
captain. Regarded as not fit for active service, he was temporarily assigned to duty at Macon, Ga., as provost marshal 
and mustering officer. He returned to his regiment and, at the head of his company, was actively engaged in the battle 
of Chickamauga. September 19-20, 1S63, in which lie behaved with conspicuous gallantry. In a skirmish near Atlanta. 
July 18, i864. he was again wounded and disabled from duty for two months, when he resumed his command and remained 
with it until the surrender under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro. He was brevetted major for bravery and meri- 
torious conduct at Shiloh. 
At the close of the war he returned to Nashville. Tenn., studied law and was admitted to the practice in 1865. City attor- 
ney 1866-68; clerk of the Circuit and Law courts of Davidson county, Tenn., 1S70-74; delegate from Tennessee to the 
Geographical and Scientific Congress in Paris. France. 1875; United States attorney in the adjustment of claims against 
the government on account of swamp land indemnities. i88s: resigned in 1S89 to accept a highly responsible position in 
the law and medical revision department of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, which he still retains, 
residing at Washington. D. C. Colonel and inspector-general, U. C. V.; a public speaker and humorist of rarest merit. 



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tin- tongue of some of your famous orators I might impress you more pleas- 
ingly with the heartfelt earnestness of our greeting. Let me say, how- 
ever, with that brevity which is the soul of wit, that it is most fitting for 
the north and south to eat, ilrink and be merr}' together; and above all for 
the Queen City of the west to pla^' the hostess on this felicitous occasion. 

"There is no other city which could better entertain her southern 
neighbors than this; no other place where northern veterans and southern 
heroes could meet more cordially at the same board and grasping each 
other's hands, say: 'Brother, ours was a family quarrel; both sides were 
brave; the past is forgotten, we will look to the common future with 
hopes prepared for an ampler vision of prosperity, a closer union and a 
more enduring patriotism.' (Applause). 

"To the e.\-Confederate generals and all the representatives of the 
southern soil who are here, I proclaim you the guests of Cincinnati 
to-night. Guests you shall ever be when it suits your pleasure to accept 
the hospitalities of our city, anel friends )ou shall ever be whether you 
are here in body or in spirit. 

"But 1 prefer to speak especially of our commercial kinship. We 
have not only reunited our hearts, but we have effected a fraternity of 
our pockets. Cincinnati is the greatest mart of trade and manufacture 
in the central west, and it is more closely allied with your people than 
any other cit\' in America. For this reason it gives me great pleasure to 
ask you to take back to every section of the south the greeting of Cin- 
cinnati's business men. When we learned that these distinguished south- 
erners were to pass through our city en route to their homes, we di-ter- 
mined to capture them if possible, not as capturing was done thirty 
years ago, but b}' the gentler arts of peace. For to-night, therefore, you 
are our prisoners. We will treat you to the best we have, but we will 
hold you as hostages for the love and s\mpathy of the southland. 

"But to the fair ladies who accompany \'our party, we ha\'e only to 
say that we are their prisoners; they have captured us. 

"Know, then, one and all, and you. sir (addressing Gen. Underwood), 
as the spokesman of our visitors, that we make you a part of our 
municipal family to-night; that we are proud to have you with us and 
that we sincerely hope you will all come again, when you can stay longer." 
(Great applause. ) 



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MAJ.-GEN. JOHN C. UNDERWOOD, 

Ex-Lieut -Gov. of Kentucky, 

Gen. Underwood: ".I/;-. Presidrnt and Members of tlie Chamber of 
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no doulit know that among the varions attributes of a Kentuckian 
modesty is the most prominent, and the battery of briglit and beautiful 
eyes, added as a complimentary audience on this occasion, is enough to 
appall even the bravest. (Laughter.) 

"Over thirty years ago I was a prisoner, confined first in Kemper 
barracks on Third street and afterward in McLean barracks on Sixth 
street in this goodly city. I had been captured the summer of 1863, by 
being left within the Federal lines, sick with typhoid fever, 011 the retreat 
of Gen. Bragg's army from Tullahoma, Tenn., and, at the time of my 
incarceration in Cincinnati f was in a feeble condition, but. nevertheless, 
soon learned the rigidity with which opposing elements are treated 
during times of war. The contrast between this most bountiful banquet 
and the royal accommodations of your truly 'Grand' hotel to-night, 
and the prison fare and my personal recollection of sleeping on an iron 
bedstead with a Federal soldier constantly near, with fixed bayonet to 
guard the fever-worn and enfeebled 'desperate' prisoner, is as wide as 
our land from ocean to ocean. The bitterness of that era has passed 
away, overstrained imaginations of desperation have given place to a 
frank and free acknowledgment of possible errors and misconceptions 
by both sides, and things are not as they were. The change is healthy! 
Thirty years after the war is time enough to hold animosities and this 
occasion is most auspicious, because of the distinguished elements com- 
mingling here to-night. (Applause. ) The 'southern' has in a manner 
forgotten the hardships, trials and losses of the past, in his acceptance 
of the result of the issue by arbitrament of arms; and in so doing has 
displaj'ed the soundest of good sense by making the most of the 
inevitable. We are here not by compulsion, neither for unprofitable 
debate, nor for any other purpose than that of good will and harmony, 
with the view of sharing reciprocal benefit with the north, socially, 
politically and materially. The south, as a people, are unalloyed and 
Americans to the core. and. through its recuperative powers, is now the 
large section of the country fast becoming self-sustaining in every 
particular. The railroads recognize, through its redevelopment, a 
rich harvest of transportation in the near future; and its people are law 
abiding from the lowest to the highest. (Applause.) It both wants and 
needs co-operative business with sister northern states, and the cotton 
fields of its broad acres, now hear the hum of machinery in places 
where the spindles of cotton factories were never dreamed of in ante- 
bellum days. In business, the past is dead; in living hearts, both politic 
and true, the friendliest intercourse for the future is assured and dis- 
sension has given place to concord, with a jointly united purpose to 




work out prosperity and enjoy happiness throughout a reunited, glorious 
nation — the land of the free. (Prolonged applausf. ) 

"Ohio is one of the best all-around states in the Union, and it is 
onlv necessary to tra\'el through it and see tlie fertile fields, prosperous 
mines and great manufacturing interests to learn and know the truth of 
the statement. Its numerous cities, containing magnificent business 
blocks and palatial residences are made to stand nut in bold relief by a 
background of live smokestacks, and the street hum of busy traffic is 
blended with the constant music of the artisan's hammer. Cincinnati, 
its most prominent and largest citv, is conser\'ative and safe in its every 
action, with unbounded cretlit. stanch and admirable banking and varied 
business facilities, with its hundreds of miles of street car railways and 
inclined roadways up the heights to the most beautiful suburbs of any 
city; with its man}- denominational churches, each with the -tallest 
steeple' and all as popular as the -little chapel around the corner:' with 
its superb system of public schools and innumerable residences display- 
ing comfort, luxury and magnificence, it is undoubtedly a veritable 
paradise in which to live. ( Loud and continued applause. ) 

'■The broad river, flowing between the sister States of Ohio and 
Kentuck)' for 500 miles, does not bound separate and foreign gov- 
ernments, but artery-like, courses its way with the life fluid of natural 
commerce between sections of one people, distinct in location, but 
united in business purpose. Cincinnati, the great city of the northern 
sister, is, in fact, the gateway to the south and the capital mart of 
central and northern Kentucky, while the State of Ohio from the 
lakes to this dividing river is agriculturally, minerally and mechanically 
prosperous, and possesses a pronounced radical patriotism. The strong 
southern and elder state, Kentuck\-, the first daughter of the revolutionary 
federation, now a Bourbon Democratic sister, no longer the 'dark and 
bloody ground' of a prehistoric period, but liberal and enlightened in all 
things, shakes hands across the gulf of former hatreds so thoroughly 
that the typical southerner of the central state blue grass, yellow grain 
and rich tobacco fields of the Green river section, can socially greet his 
cooler neighbor from the wool-growing regions of Lake Erie, and join 
in a united patriotic sentiment over the festive board without gauging 
the size of the draught that quenches the thirst of his friend. (Laughter 
and applause.) 

'•The picture drawn between Ohio and Kentucky is but typical of all 
the states in greater and less degrees, and 'twould be folly to assert 
otherwise should any one so wish. In conse(iuence of my early support 
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toward the completion of the enterprise, to say nothins; of my residing 
for several years at Columbus, I claim connection with the great State of 
Ohio and cousinly relationship, at least, for the reasons that my father 
fought under the first Harrison in Dudley's defeat opposite Fort Meigs, 
and. when a wounded prisoner, -ran the Indian gauntlet " on the banks 
of the Maumee river near Toledo. He afterward made the first white 
man's trans-Ohio water trip from Sandusky to Portsmoutli. and my 
great-uncle, Joseph Rogers, a captive, disguised as an Indian, gave up 
his life in Gen. Clark's fight with the Pawnee Indians at Piqua, shot by 
red man or Kontuckian, while tr\ing to escape to his cousin's army; and, 
later, through the acts of Ohio's natural orator, Thos. Corwiu. who was 
instrumental in securing my release o;-; parole from the Fort Warren 
prison by special order of President Lincoln. The knowledge of such 
historic events cannot fail to bring closer together the elements of the 
former associations of fraternal blood ties, and in this new era, not 
of forgetfulness, bvit of harmonization and reciprocal friendly inter- 
course, the true man from either of the formerly belligerent sections 
cannot but hail a reunited Nation with sincerest gratitude. 

•'It was with such feeling that I asked my southern friends to accept 
the invitation to visit your city. and. as a resident of the first and 
adjoining central border southern state and the originator of the move- 
ment now so happih- culminating. I, on behalf of the people of the 
south, accept the hearty and warm welcome so lavishly and hospitably 
extended to its representatives by the president of the Chamber of 
Commerce and. through him. by the citizens generally of Cincinnati. 
(^Applause.) I would stop here were it not a punishment, if not an 
impossibilitv, for a Kentuckian to cease speaking without first paying 
proper tribute to the fair ladies present. 1, Laughter.) No burying of 
the hatchet, no sealing of mutual vows of future friendship and national 
unity can be so well witnessed as by the eyes of those, the types of our 
mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. The ladies present, descendants 
of revolutionary sires, by the charm of their loveliness, lend enchant- 
ment to the occasion and forever attest and bespeak the keeping of 
vows, self-promised to-night in silent obligation. 

"Fair woman is the fitting being to rub off and smooth down the 
asperities of former hatreds, for in her ministrations the gentleness of 
her nature, the chastity of her thought and Christian purpose is felt 
everywhere: the preceptor of intuitive right, a diamond in brilliancy, a 
pearl in gentle radiance, a dewdrop in purity, complete the ensemble, 
and. in retiring. I bow to her shrine, a />risoiur unto deaihS' (^\'ociferous 
and prolonged applause. ^ 



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rrrsiilciit (ilcnn: " f,(ii/i<\' diii/ (!(ii//fiiirii 1 now li,i\ c the plcasun 

to present our soldier --lalrsnian, ('km, | I ). ("ox. as tlu: toastinaslcr.' 
(Gen. ("ox was grcclcd willi nnisiiiL; aiiplausc.) 



MAJ. CI'.N. JACOi; 1). COX. 



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(nil. Cox; "I//. P) I'sldnil iitui (.iiiillinirn. Itwasa most . appropriate 
ami i;raceliil lliilii; lor llie ("lianilier ol Comincrce to represent the people 
of Cincinnati in w cK oniini; these disliii^nished soiilliein soldiers on Iheii 
way lionie from the dedication of tlu' monunient to tlieir comrades in one 
of Chicafio's beautiful eemeteries. 

•■Conimerre is not ,i mere pursuit of !;ain In tradinj;. It is sys- 
tem.itic .uid enlif;litened inleiiouise .iiiiohl; men. It's keen-eyed activit)' 
is nnliriiiL; in l>riiii;ini; distant p.irts of the iciiinlr\- and ot the world into 
closer loin li .iiid more appreciative aci|uaiiitance. Idle intt'lli};ent mer- 
chant studies the [jrogress of every coiuiuunity into which his enteiprise 
carries him. notes its changes of sentiment, stimulates the growth of 
every kindl\- feelinj;. and thus is a go-between of busy, friendly inllnence, 
brinj;ing his own home and the home of his customers into more sympa- 
thetic relations and more appreciative spirit. 

" This jiatriolic. this educative work, the organized body of mer- 
chants in the Chamber ol C-ommeree li.is been doing for j'ears, and we 
thank them lor now bringini; these reiu'csimtative nun ot the south into 
person. d aiul social cont.ut with tlieii bntliien ol the north. The meet- 
ing is full ol significant'. It sjie.iks loiuK i than words, saying: • Von 
who were once estranged Irom each other, e\fn to the extent of desperate 
and blooily war, .in- bretliren again!' This great body of mercliants, 
with the knowledge gained through a tlious.nid channels of sure infor- 
mation, becomes the i)iiblic guarantor that a true Intern. d feeling has in 
fact prex.iiled. and tlial m both north .\\\A south a (iimmon patriotism, 
a common loyalt\' to the Cnited States, a common devotion to the 
national llag is found. W'e. their guests, are in our own persons the 
jiroof that what thi'y say is true! i .Xjiplaiise. ) 

"In my service in the national .iriuy, the naiues of many of tliose 
whom I meet here to-nigiit were very lamil.ir. not merely witli familiar- 
ity which fame gives to the n.inies of stout soldiers. There was another, 
a more personal interest. It is one thing to read of men i>roiuin(>nt in a 
great war; it is quite another to look .icross the mterx.il between hostile 
pickets in the Held and sa\- to one's self; ' Longstrci't is comni;indiiig 




MAJ.-GEN. J. D. COX. 

DURING THE SIXTIES, 




lune 1 . 1895, 
BIOGRAPHIC: 

|:icob Dolson Cox was born in New York. October 27, 182S; graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1851. 

Member of Ohio Senate in 1S60, brigadier-general of Ohio troops. April. j86i: brigadier-fieneral of United States volunteers. 
May. 1S61; major-Keneral of United States volunteers, October, ii<(i2\ connmandanl of Twenty-third army corps, March. 
ivS65; eovernor of Ohio, 1S66-67; secretary of interior. 1869: representative in Cungress, 1S77-78; dean of tlie Cincinnati 
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yonder, French's division holds that huif^ht. Fitz Lee's horsemen hold 
that wood, Hampton's legion is marching; there!" That is the past which 
comes back when I meet around this board many of these distinguished 
men for the first time, though after so long, and in some cases so inti- 
mate an accpuiintance. How curious it is to compare the features and 
the personal presence with the mental portrait with which one has long 
been familiarl What a zest it gives to the thought that we are really 
friends and countrymen! 

■'With some of them, like my friend. Gen. Hunton, who sits beside 
me, I have served in civil duties, and have known by surest personal 
knowledge that they not only had been gallant and able soldiers in the 
field, but had become representatives of the new south in the national 
legislative halls, with as unquestioned allegiance to the Nation and as 
patriotic devotion to the service of the whole country as any of us would 
venture to claim. Accepting the results of the great strnggle with candor 
of heart and directness of purpose, without hesitation or mental reserva- 
tion, they throw their whole strength into the work of developing the 
national prosperity and making our common heritage more than ever 
precious to our children. (Applause.) 

"And I love to think that some who cannot be with us to-night 
because 

•Their souls are with the saints, we trust.' 



proved before they left us how earnest and sincere they were in trying 
to lead their countrymen into the fullest recognition of the fact that the 
war was over, and that it was a supreme dut\- to build with utmost dili- 
gence the reconstructed Union on the foundation of hearty obedience to 
the whole constitution and most honest citizenship in the whole Nation. 

"Few would claim for Robert E. Lee a higher place as a soldier than 
I would cordially yield, but I love best to think of him as a model of 
citizenship when Appomattox was behind him and when, with his mate- 
rial fortunes apparently ruined, he was showing with what dignity, with 
what charity, with what modesty a great man can teach his followers 
how to bow to the decrees of Providence. He did not stop to bewail the 
past, lie did not hide himself in despair, nor shirk the duty whicli came 
to hand. By every word and every act he set the e.xaniple of accepting 
results without reserve and bending every energy to bring Virginia and 
her sister states out of the straits which necessarily followed such a war. 

•'With a fine sense of propriety, he hesitated to accept even the head- 
ship of an institution of learning till he could satisfy himself that it would 
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He was ready to becoiiu- a plain farmer and get liis bread by the labor 
of his own hands if that would best teach his peopli- the ijuiet. unques- 
tioning obedience to the laws, which was the first condition of a solidh 
renewed citizenship. (Great applause. ) 

"But when he went to preside over the college at Le.xington, the 
closing scenes of his career lent a new dignity to his character and drew 
the hearts of candid and thoughtful persons toward him with wondrous 
power. I-fis influence on the young men who crowded about him was 
elevating and inspiring. His daily life was a lesson in letting 'the dead 
past bur\' its dead.' His every word taught good faith and earnestness 
in accepting the t>liligations of citizenship. With a grave and noble 
cheerfulness lie showed that the future might be every great and glorious 
thing the young men of the generation would patriotically determine to 
make it. 

"I am sure it would be difficult to overestimate the value of that 
example and that teaching in preparing the way for the fraternit}- of 
which We are here to-night the visible proofs and living witnesses. Past 
conflicts may well be forgotten in the homage to such a character, and 
whether we wore the blue or the gray, we may find common ground and 
a new bond of union in our admiration of it." (Prolonged applause.) 

Gen. Cox: ''The first and most auspicious toast, 'Our United Coun- 
try,' was to have been responded to by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, but the 
general having been called by official duties is unavoidably absent, 
therefore the sentiment will be responded to by one of the most promi- 
nent civil officers of the general government; and I now have the pleas- 
ure of introducing Solicitor-General Conrad. 



MAJ. HOLMES CONRAD, 

Solicitor Cieneral United States, 



Maj. Conrad: "Ladirs and Grntlcnu-n — I invoke your sympathy that 
it has fallen to my lot to occup\- the place which had been assigned to 
Gen. Lee. I cannot allow to pass unchallenged the statement from our 
distinguished chairman, that a 'new patriotism' now inspires the people 
of the south. The patriotism of Robert E. Lee was the patriotism of 
George Washington; the patriotism of 1861 was that of 1776. ft was 
strong, unyielding and unselfish love of country. It rested upon a con- 
viction which had been formed in the minds of the people of the south 
when the Federal constitution was adopted, and which their education 
and experience had confirmed, that liomc rule was the surest safeguard 




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of our republican institution and form of government; that the evils 
which threatened us from centralization and paternalism in the Federal 
government were far greater and more disastrous than any which could 
result from according to the several states the rights and responsibilities 
whicli, as we conceived, rightfully belonged to them. We submitted 
our cause to the decision of the sword, and we lost. 

"No weak repinings, no unmanly complaints, no unworthy or 
ignoble designs liave found place among us. We accepted the result 
with fortitude. We have endured the long and bitter train of conse- 
quent evils with a courage that has never faltered and a virtue that has 
never failed. Our patriiitisin has never changed, it has abided and sus- 
tained us in war and in peace. In sincere and ardent love of country 
we have yielded to none. (Applause. ) 

•'It is true, indeed, that with the people of the south their patriotic 
ardor was more immediately kindled by the flag that bore the emblem of 
state authority than by the gorgeous ensign, which was the symbol of 
Federal supremacy, but this was due, as well to the views of govern- 
ment in which they had been trained as to the fact that their own states 
had furnished many of the statesmen and soldiers who had given that 
national banner its commanding place among the flags of the nations. 

"We are here to-night, not as the citizens of states, but as citizens 
of the republic. If challenged at your outposts, we compel admission 
to your camp by that countersign that has prevailing power over every 
American heart — 'I am an American citizen.' 

"Our countr}' is united. United in interests, united in sentiment and 
united in destiny. Let but some hostile invader from a foreign shore 
insult our coasts and tlie citizen soldiers of the north will be swift 
indeed if they anticipate those who will gather from the south tn the 
defense of our common country. (Applause.) 

"We are united in our material interests. You gentlemen of the 
Chamber of Commerce, whose munificent hospitality we are enjoying 
to-night, must rightl\- discern the underlying forces on which our 
domestic commerce depend and see to it that they are rightly applied. 

"I fear that the mere professional politician has more to do with the 
application of these forces than the merchant or the manufacturer. 
That the perple.xing and ceaselessly disturbing questions of tariff, cur- 
rency and interstate commerce are kept alive and not suffered to settle 
down into a national adjustment under the fixed laws of trade, because 
the politician knows too well that with their final settlements his avoca- 
tion is gone." (Continued applause. ) 

Gen. Cox: "The next sentiment was to have been responded toby 
his Honor, Mayor Caldwell, but, owing to temporary sickness, his indis- 




June 1, 1S95. 
BIOGRAPHIC: 

Harlan P. Lloyd was born at Angelica. N. Y., of English and Welsh parentage, and after a high school and collegiate educa- 
tion in his native state, entered the Union army in 1H61, raising a company of volunteers in his county. He was engaged 
under Gen. Burnside in tlie operations in North Carolina, and Inter was transferred to a cavalry regiment, and served in 
the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac under Gens. Cusier and Sheridan. He took part in the battles of the 
Wilderness. Spottsylvania C. H., Cold Harbor, tlie siege of Petersburg, at Jerusalem Plank Road, and in all the battles 
of the Wilson raid south of Richmond, in June, 1^64. His regiment was then sent to the Shenandoah valley, and took 
part in every battle of Gen. Sheridan's brilliant campaign. While leading a charge at the head of his command near 
Winchester, in August, 1864. he was phot directly through the body, and was considered mortally wounded. He recov- 
ered, however, rejoined his regiment in the field in December, 1M64, and served until the close of the war. taking part with 
Gen. Grant's army in its final engagements; was twice promoted for gallantry on the field, and brevetted by the President. 

At the close of the war he entered the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been very actively engaged professionally, 
and has attained a high rank at the bar of that city, has been frequently employed in United States courts and asso- 
ciated in the practice with some of the most distinguished lawyers of the land. 

He has been very actively interested in many philanthropic associations of his city and state, and is a very prominent 
member of the military order of the Loyal Legion; is a member of the various literary, social and political clubs; has 
been quite a traveler, making four different trips to Europe, where he spent much time in special study in England. 
Germany and Austria. 



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pusition is such as to pre\ent his attemiance and therefore the toast 
"Cincinnati, the Gateway of the South," will be responded to by Maj. 
H. P. Lloyd, the representative of the mayor." 




MAJ. II. r. LLOYi), 

( >f Cincinnati. 



Maj. Lloyd was greeted with enthusiasm and said that while he 
regretted the unavoidable absence of the mayor, yet he was glad of the 
opportunity to say a word to the renowned visitors and welcome them to 
Cincinnati, the central and main gateway between the north and south, 
which he did in a most agreeable, hospitable and emphatic manner, 
thereby eliciting the heartiest applause from the visiting guests and tiie 
fullest e.xpressions of endorsement from the citj's prominent citizens 
present. 

The major paid a high tribute to the south, its men and its women, 
and referred to the free, open, hospitable attributes of the people of that 
section. He thought the redevelopment of the southland meant renewed 
national prosperity and said, very impressively, that Cincinnati's advan- 
tageous location, together with the sincere purpose and good will of her 
citizens constituted her. of all cities, the one to receive, welcome and 
entertain southern people. 

He said that the people of Kentucky knew this to be true not only in 
theory but by the material investment of millions upon millions of the 
city's capital in constructing its great southern railroad to Chatta- 
nooga, thereby opening new and extending its rail communication with 
the Atlantic seaboard and gulf states. The pulsation caused by business 
interests as well as that from the heart existed; and that the central and 
queen of the cities of the north was not only proud of its pioneer move- 
ment in building the chief link of the overland transportation line to the 
Crescent City on the gulf, but that it at the same time enjoyed such 
extensive natural advantages that the floating palaces of travel and 
commerce on the great water conrse highway formed by the Ohio and 
Mississippi rivers, placed Cincinnati in closer connection with the cen- 
tral south than any other supply city of the land. When the city made 
so great an outlay of its funds it meant business, and it desired the 
fullest and most confidential relations with the southern people and be 
assured that the return would be reciprocal in every respect. 

He was very much in earnest and his remarks were greeted with great 
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BIOGRAPHIC: 

Eppa Hunton was born in Fauquier county. Va., September 23, 1823; educated, studied and practiced law. 
Coiiimonwealth attorney of Prince William county, Va., 1849-62; elected member slate convention 1861 

Colonel Eighth Virginia infantry May 8, 1S61; promoted brigadier general F, A. C. S. August g. 1863, after battle of Gettysburg. 
Elected to and served as member of the XXXXIII., XXXXIV., XXXXV. and XXXXVI, Congresses, United States. Elected 

by the House of Representatives a member of the celebrated "electoral commission" in iS"G. 
Appointed United States senator May 28, 1S92, to fill unexpired terra, and subsequently elected thereto by the legislature of 

Virginia. 
Resides and practices law at Warrenton, Va. 



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Gen. Co\: •■Tht- next toast 'The Soldiur ia Politics' will receive the 
attention of a distinguished general who is a senator in Congress from 
\'irginia, and having served with him in Congress and known him long 
and well as statesman and by reputation as soldier, 1 can endorse his 
head, heart and arm, and consecjuently take great pleasure in presenting 
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BRIG.-GEN. EPPA HUNTON, 

0£ Virginia. 

Gen. Hunton: ■■,]//-, Pitudcii/ . Lailics and Gi-iitUiii,ii — 1 wish 1 
deserved all the kind and conijilimentary things my friend, Gen. Cox, has 
said of me. I can only claim that in an humble way 1 have tried to do 
my whole duty in every position I have occupied through life. 

"The soldier in politics is well illustrated by the ability and con- 
scientious discharge of duty which characterized the course of Gen. Cox 
in the Congress of the United States. I had the honor to serve with 
him four years, and I beg leave to say he was faithful to the high trust 
reposed in him by his constituents, and discharged his duty with ability 
and fidelity. His course in politics was as diverse from mine as was 
our convictions antl conilnct during the war. We differed radicall}' in 
war and in peace (of course I was right and he was wrong), but 1 never 
failed to accord to him the same honesty of conviction I claim for 
myself and gladly yield to him much more ability in discharge of his 
convictions. (Applause. ) 

"Mr. President, if \ou take as true what Gen. Cox has said of me, 
what I have said of him, and which you know to be true, I need not 
further elaborate the character of -the soldier in politics.' A good 
soldier is most apt to be good in every position he is called to fill. 

"Mr. President, I have been very much touched by the reception 
given to us as ex-Confederates in Chicago and here. By the generous 
and persevering efforts of Gen. Underwood a monument had been 
erected to the Confederate heroes who died in prison at Camp Douglas, 
and I and other ex-Confederates were invited to Chicago to take part in 
its dedication. How beautiful and touching was the conception. After 
the war had ended thirty years, a monument is erected in Chicago to the 
heroes who had fought these same people, and had given their precious 
lives to the honesty of their convictions. 

"When I stood upon the stand and surveyed the vast multitude of 
Union men who participated in the ceremony of honoring heroic devo- 
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that there was a complete reconcihation between the sections than the 
scene before me. No word was uttered, no sound was heard that grated 
harshly on the ear of anyone, whether he had worn the gray or the blue. 

"That beautiful monument will stand forever as incentive to duty 
even at the peril of life and of the generous magnanimity of the victors in 
that great struggle, that for four years shook this continent. It will be 
a standing menace to those who would keep alive sectional hatred, and 
ought to palsy the tongue that would deal in invective against a lieroic 
but vanquished people. 

"At the banquet that preceded the services in the beautiful cemetery 
the speeches, whether made by Confederates or Unionists, all breathed 
the same spirit of good will and kindly regard. 

"We left that beautiful city filled with pleasant memories of our visit, 
and with hearty good wishes for Chicago and its people, who had hon- 
ored themselves by their generous conduct to Confederate dead, and had 
in so many ways honored us as their guests. 

"Before leaving Chicago we were further greatly honored by an 
invitation through your Chamber of Commerce to enjoy the hospitality 
of this beautiful city. No reception could be kinder than yours. No 
hospitality could e.xceed that which you have accorded us. You have 
met us in your Chamber of Commerce, you have shown us the beauties 
of your city and its suburbs and now you are here in the banquet hall to 
greet us with good cheer and eloquent speeches. I shall always 
remember Cincinnati in great kindness and cherish the memory of this 
visit which has not been marred b\' a single unpleasant incident. 

"I feel that I have some right to stand on Ohio ground and say fellow 
citizens. I hail from the mother of states, dear. Old Virginia, and I 
recall that to form the confederacy of states and afterward the more per- 
fect Union, Virginia gave to the Federal government territory enough 
to form live states, including La Belle Ohio. I can start from the long 
bridge across the Potomac and travel through Cincinnati and Chicago 
and on to the father of waters and never take my foot off the soil which 
once belonged to Virginia. She was and always has been generous and 
patriotic. (Applause.) 

"I could not help thinking that when these five states poured out their 
brave volunteers during the war to devastate her land and destroy her 
people. Old Virginia might have cried in the language of King Lear, 
'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.' 

"But the war is over: we are no longer enemies but friends. For 
thirty years I have been a law abiding citizen of the United States, and 
expect ever to remain such. I would never have been in the halls 
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in the llnitfd States St'iiate, if I could not in truth and in fact liave 
been a true citizen of the United States, anxious as one of the law- 
makers to make this government, the best the world ever saw. 

"But I never mean to go back on my Confederate record. I never 
mean to put my face in my liands, and my hands in the dust and cry 
'peccavi-pcccavi.' I should not only forfeit my own self respect, but that 
of the true Union soldier who fought with a conviction of right no 
greater or stronger than mine. 

•'I am glad to be with you here to-night and to witness in Cincinnati, 
as I did in Chicago, the kind feelings of both cities for the dear people 
of the south. 

"One word to the ladies who liave graced this occasion with their 
presence and beauty. They are for the most part from the southland 
and they are types of the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters who did 
so much to alleviate the horrors of war, and to cheer the brave in deeds 
of patriotic devotion to a cause they loved so well. 

"Woman was 'last at the cross and first at the tomb.' So our dear 
women were ever during the war engaged in acts of heroic devotion to 
the sick and wounded, and never turned a deaf ear to the cry of pain or 
distress. God bless the true hearted women of our whole country. 

"I shall feel regret at taking leave of those in this city who have been 
so kind to us. I shall carry with me to my dear X'irginia home, the most 
pleasant recollections of this visit, and pray God to bless with prosperity 
the Cities of Chicago and Cincinnati." (Great applause. ) 

Gen. Cox: "To the toast, 'The Old have Forgiven, the Young have 
Forgotten,' I invite your attention to the response by our own soldier 
orator. Gen. Michael Ryan, whom 1 now have the jileasure to present." 




BRIG. -GEN. MICHAEL RYAN, 

Ot Cincinnati 



Cjen. Ryan: •'.!//•. Chairiiuui , I.aiiiis and Gtiitlriiifu As a member 
of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, and as an American who 
glories in the heroic deeds of Americans, I join with my fellow citizens 
in welcoming to Cincinnati the Confederate generals who participated in 
the late war. Some people sa\' that we ought to forget the late civil 
strife. We ought, and do forget the hatreds it engendered, the heart 
burnings and the sorrows: but the glories of that war we will never 
forget. In that four years of war are crowded more tremendous l>attles, 
more brilliant feats of arms, more heroic deeds, than in an\' half century 
of the world's history. And it was all American \alor. When Greek 



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'"°"'^:i^n Ryan w. .orn in TeUnd. Ocobe. B, .«,5, and in„.i«ra.ed . A.eHca and seuled in OMo in .S.3. Educa.ed a. S.. 
Xaviers college, Cincinnati, Ohio. _ 

Eneaged in the pork packing business when ^nite a young man^ Cincinnati board of aldermen; exposition com- 

Hafheld niany^posi.ions of honor «"Von rov''Toad e," ? aft P?es°dent of the Cincinnati Abattoir Company; president 
S'?,VJ'Srncinr.Varrn:iro^^£;nr'm°erc^^\id"arpr'ls'en.lssis5'ant V. S. Treasurer, at Cncnnat,, Ohio. 



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met Greek in battle in tlie olden times, a display of almost superhuman 
bravery and courage was looked for, but the stories we have read of 
ancient valor pale into insignificance before what occurred when the 
north and south crossed swords and American blood poured out in tor- 
rents and dyed crimson the American soil. (Applause.) It is not necessary 
to speak of the motives which actuated the men of the south in taking up 
arms. One thing you proved on a hundred battlefields; Vou believed 
you were right, you believed in the justice of your cause, for there is no 
greater, nobler, or grander test of man's sincerity than when he freely 
and willingly yields up his life for the faith that is in him. It was from 
no lack of courage or devotion to your cause that you yielded at last. 
It was from sheer exhaustion, only when nothing else was left for brave 
men to do, that you furled the banner that you had fought under so long 
and heroically and accepted the arbitrament of the sword. While the 
north takes pride and glory in the superb achievements of our rank and 
file, our brave boys in blue who went forth at the Nation's call and saved 
our glorious Union from disruption — yes, made it possible for this country 
to be what she is to-day, the grandest, the proudest nation on the face of 
the earth, and while dear to the American heart will ever be the names of 
Grant. Sherman and Sheridan and the rest of the glorious roster of heroes; 
yet, as a brave and generous people, we would be lacking in national 
spirit if we did not also hold in esteem and atlmiration those glorious souls 
who led the opposing forces: Lee, Jackson, Johnston, and the others. 
(Great applause.) May we not well ask in the pride of our hearts if 
the sections of our country when warring in civil strife produced such 
armies and such heroes, what foreign foe could withstand us when 
united, as we are to-day? Is it not a fact that side by side against the 
common enemy, would be found the sons of the men who wore both the 
blue and the gray, emulating the heroism and valor of their sires in 
defense of a common country and one glorious flag? Thank God for 
all this! True, it took thesouth some time to recover from the wounds 
and the heartburnings of the war; but you cannot keep such people down 
long. You brave men who waged such a heroic fight and lost all but 
honor, determined to forgive and forget and on the ruins of your broken 
and prostrate country to build up a New South, which in commerce and 
trade and the arts of peace, would rise to a higher, a grander plane than 
the old south could ever have attained. We, here in Cincinnati, were 
the first to feel the throb of returning vitality to the south. We had faith 
in your great country and its wonderful resources. We had faith in the 
energy and enterprise of the southern people and we did not hesitate to 
expend the immense sum of $20,000,000 in the construction of a mag- 




May 29-June 2, 1S95. 
BIOGRAPHIC; 

Robert W, Hunter was born in Virginia, received a good education and studied law. 

About the beginning of liostiliiies between northern and southern states, he volun leered in llie Confederate army, 
April 18, iSGi, as lieutenant of the Berkeley Border Guards, afterward Company D., Second Virginia regiment of 
infantry, Stonewall Brigade; became adjutant of the regiment June, 1861, and frequently acted as assistant adjutant- 
general of the brigade. 

Served with the Stonewall Brigade until the battle of Gettysburg, July. 1S63, when he was appointed major and A. A, G. 
of Gen. Edward Johnson's division, E wells' corps; was transferred to Gen. John B. Gordon's divisiou May 12. 
1864; served for a time with Gen. R. E. Lee and afterward as A. A. G. of Second corps. Army of Northern Virginia, 
November 4, 1S64, and surrendered with Gen. Gordon at Appomattox. 

Lawyer by profession; three times a member of the Virginia legislature; delegate to Democratic national convention and 
elector for his Congressional district. 

Inspector of public land service during President Cleveland's first administration. 

Assistant attorney, department of the interior, June, 1895 — Resides at Washington, D. C. 



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nificent liighway with which to bring vour trade and commerce to our 
doors. (Hear! hearl) There is not a man here who has the best interests 
of the city at heart who regrets the investment. We are more than any 
other city, interested in the growth of the south. We believe this city 
of ours has a splendid future but that future depends in a great measure 
on the development, growth, and prosperity of the New South. Our fate 
is almost inseparably bound up with yours; what is good for you is good 
for us, and therefore we must work hand in hand together. So, now my 
friends, the City of Cincinnati opens her heart and her homes to you. 
With generous friendship we extend to you the right hand of honest, 
friendly feeling and good fellowship, ami we want you to feel that when- 
ever you are within the portals of our good old city, you are at home in 
the house of your friends." (Prolonged applause. ) 

Gen. Cox: -'To the sentiment, 'The Patriotic South,' 1 am jiecu- 
liarly fortunate in being able to present to you a typical southerner and 
Virginian, and the very officer who bore the last flag of truce, at Appo- 
mattox, Maj. R. W. Hunter." 



MAJ. ROBERT W. HUNTER. 

of Virginia. 



Maj. Hunter delivered an admirable address in response to the jiatri- 
otic sentiment assigned him, and in his attractive southern way, empha- 
sized the noble feelings entertained throughout his section in the past by 
its accepting the issue of the war, and asserted that the soutli was now 
as patriotic as any other part of the Nation. He also stated that it was 
true that he had carried the last flag of the Confederacy, a J^d^ of truce, 
at Appomattox; that the surrender there was onh' made after human 
powers had become exhausted, and the problem of the possibility of 
further armed resistance was no longer susceptible of solution; and that, 
as a fact, when the remnants of the southern army laid down their arms 
they did so with the good faith their subseijuent actions as loyal citizens 
indeliblv pro\'ed. He enlarged upon his theme, displa3'ing eloquence 
and pathos, l)ut his real forte is his inimitable fund of anecdote, which he 
used to ver_\' great advantage and frequently had his audience in roars of 
laughter. Continuing in such channels he said: 

"There have been many things told of that surrender, but here is one 
that has reference to this fellow here. Gen. Kyd Douglas. We had sur- 
rendered, when Gen. Gordon heard a great rattle of musketry. 'Hunter,' 
he yelled, 'what fool is that? Go and stop him.' 





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June I, 1895, 

BIOGRAPHIC: 

Melville Augustus Cochran was born in Maine, July iH, 1836; received a good educatiun, and enlisted as a volunteer for the 
United States army May i, iSfji; elected second lieutenant of liis company, but the troops were declined by the secretary 
of war. Appointed captain Sixteenth infantry, \}. S A. (regulars I, August 5, 1S61. and, after two months' recruiting duty, 
served in the field and in Confederate prisons until March i, 1S65, when he was exchanged. Escaped twice from prison, 
but was recaptured each time. 

Brevetted major for gallant and meritorious service in battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863, where he was captured; and, 
after the close of the war. ■.vas transferred to Second infantry, April 17. 1S69. Promoted major Twelfth infantry March 4, 
1S79, lieutenant colonel Fifth infantry May 31, 1S83, and colonel Sixth infantry July 14. iSgo. After the civil war he 
served in the south until iS;6; when, ^t the outbreak of the Nez Perces Indian war. his regiment was ordered west, and 
he served in Idaho, Washington, Arizona. Montana, the Dakotas and Texas, until 1890. and was then transferred to Fort 
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"I rode over, and who do \o\\ think was doinj; it? Why. my old 
friend, Douglas. I said to him: 'Douglas, are \'ou commanding this 
army or Gen. Lee? He has surrendered.' Why, he was only a major 
then, and I helieve if it hatl lasted a few days longer he wotdd have been 
a major-general. (Laughter and applause. ) 

■'But there is now no more patriotic man than Douglas." 
The rest of the talk was full of witty remarks and fetching stories, but 
he did not forget to make proper acknowledgment to his entertainers and 
the cause that the banquet represented. The audience was delighted 
and he. on taking his seat, received a re-echoing round of applause. 

Gen. Cox: "In the absence of the general of the army, we are fortunate 
in having with us the renowned commandant of Fort Thomas, the 
government's military post that graces the Kentucky hills on the beautiful 
Ohio river near by, and I have the honor to present to you Col. M. A. 
Cochran, who will respond to 'The Army and Navy.'" 



COL. M. A. COCHRAN, 



I'liituil Statfs Army. 



Col. Cochran: "J//-. Cliairiiian, Liu/irs and Gi'iitlniini — I am called 
upon as a substitute for that distinguished soldier, the commanding 
general of the army, Lieut. -Gen. Scliofield, who had been selected to 
respond to the toast 'The Army and Navy.' No one regrets mi'ic tlian I 
do his absence on this occasion. The complimentary introduction of the 
toastmaster makes it necessary for me to fill the gap as best 1 can. 

"The army and navy represent, under certain circumstances, the 
power of the Executive of this great Nation. When considered in their 
ratio to the population of the states, or compared with like organizations 
of European nations, they appear small and insignificant, and unequal 
to the task of maintaining our respect as a first-class power at home or 
abroad. 

"The trite saying, 'In time of peace prepare for war,' seems to be 
neglected by us. We have an army of only 25,000, and our navy is 
even more insignificant. Our large cities are unprotected, and in case 
of sudden war — and it always comes suddenly and unexpectedly — could 
easily be placed under contriluition by any first-class European power. 
It is true that during the past few years appropriations for seacoast 
defense liave been made by the Congress, but these have not been large 
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be in a satisfactor_v condition in this respect. Our navy should be built 
up as rapidly as possible till equal to that of any other nation, and 
our army should at once be made at least twice its present size, and so 
organized as to be capable of expansion at the will of the President, to 
meet any sudden emergency likely to occur. 

"This occasion reminds us that in the next tvar we who were enemies 
in the last will be shoulder to shoulder, and vieing with each other in 
defense of country and flag." (Great applause.) 

Gen. Cox: -'The last toast is 'The Soldier in Peace and War,' and the 
response to it will be made by one of our most distinguished guests, who, 
instead of carrying the last flag of truce, is charged with ordering the 
firing of the last volley of the war. I present and introduce Gen. H. 
Kyd Douglas." 

MAJ.-GEN. H. KYD DOUGLAS, 

Of Marvlcind. 



Gen. Douglas is an exceedingh' ready speaker, and has the advantage 
of a personnel to impress and draw his audience. His response to the 
toast, '-The Soldier in Peace and War," was exceedingly catchy, to the 
point, and at times very flowery, and his rhetorical display and manner 
of describing the soldier, flushed with excitement in battle as compared 
with the same individual in the citizen's pursuits of peace, were listened 
to with breathless silence, and his peroration culminated in so many 
pithy expressions that the audience simply pronounced his effort superb. 
As an incident of more than passing interest to the Queen City citizens 
he related a correspondence with a Cincinnati merchant just after the 
beginning of the war, in substance as follows: 

"I came through here before getting into the war, and I want to see 
a member of the Chamber of Commerce of this city who sent a certain 
telegram. He got a telegram from a southern planter saying: -Send 
me a hundred barrels of flour.' The war had commenced. That Cincin- 
nati man replied: 'Eat cotton, damn you.' I want to see that man. 
He is all right. I'll bet he was a fighter. I want him to see me 
to-morrow, but PU bet now he'll trust me for a hundred barrels of flour." 

Gen. Douglas is a forcible as well as eloquent talker, witty and 
pathetic, and his address was certain])' one of the best of the evening. 
It bristled with love for the old cause and the old leaders, and with the 
honest patriotism of the man of the south to-day. His memorial homage 
to Lee was greeteil with cheers, and his tribute to the women of the 
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At tlie conclusion of Gen. Douglas' speech the ladies arose and were 
given the exi]uisite flowers that decorated the table. Good-night and 
happiest dreams were wished them, and, with their departure, the 
brightness of the royal occasion faded out into the shadows of pleasantest 
recollections, as the party retired shortly after midnight. 

[Extract from the Cincinnati Trihiiii,'. June 2, iSgj | 

The banquet was a fitting climax to the day of Queen City hospitality, for is not 
this great municipality the gateway through which the stern northerner passes to meet 
his soft-tongued hospitable brother of the warm, langorous south? Is it not here that 
they seem to meet on neutral ground? Here it is neither north nor south, east nor west, 
for the census places the center of population within a few miles of this City of 
Cincinnati. Then who is there to say that the banquet at the Grand last night could 
have been given in a better place, speaking geographically, commercially and socially? 
Surely Cincinnati is the place where the northern veteran can cordially grasp the hand 
of his southern brother and say: "Hrother. if was a family quarrel. You were a bra\e 
and worthy antagonist Shake!" And it may be said that brothers were never so 
brotherly as they were last night, yet thirty-three years ago some of the very men that 
were calmly eating beside their northern friends were bent on the capture of the fair 
city in which they were so hospitably entertained yesterday. But all this has passed. 
It is not forgotten, it never will be so long as the participants live; but each year tempers 
the feeling: resentment dies slowly away, and in its place is rising a feeling of comrade- 
ship and national brotherly love that has even now united the north and the south with 
bonds that will never again be broken. 

The guests were royally fed and royally entertained. They were made to feel that 
there was no north or south, but just one great big country full of mighty good people, 
all glad to join hands and develop the Arcadian richness of one of the greatest countries 
in the world. Commercially the outlook is stupendous, and Cincinnati last night 
introduced her brightest and her best business men to the residents of the country 
which is beginning to be a veritable mart of trade and a center of manufacturing. It 
was a banquet that Cincinnati may well feel proud over, and it is not saying too much 
to say that it has tied the city to the south in the tightest of commercial bands, for now 
that the acquaintanceship has begun so auspiciously trade will be bound to follow. 

President Glenn welcomed the guests on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce. He 
announced that when the people of Cincinnati heard that these generals were to pass 
through Cincinnati it was determined to capture them, and the act was done. Mr. 
Glenn then reviewed the conditions that made Cincinnati the gateway to the south, and 
in eloquent words bid the guests welcome, both now and in the future, and closed by 
gallantly paying his respects to the ladies. 

Gen. John C. Underwood, who labored so faithfully to gather the funds for the 
erection of the monument to the Confederate dead at Chicago, responded to Mr. Glenn s 
address of welcome eloquently and earnestly. He plead for peace and good-will 
"Thirty years after the war is time enough to hold animosity." The address was 
vigorously applauded, as it deserved to be. 

The tenor of all the speeches was the same — pleas for peace, for brotherly love, for 
a burying of the past. 




CAPT. H. B. LITTLEPAGE. 

DURING THE SIXTIES. 




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BIOGR\PHIC: 

H, Beverly Littlepage was born in King William county, \'a., March 8, 1841. Educated in common school until 1S54. in Rum- 
ford Academy 1854-7 and then at United States Naval Academy until April 19, 1861, when he resigned and joined the 
Confederate navy. 

Midshipman C S. N., May, 1H61; master. April. 1862; second lieucenant, September, 1863; first lieutenant. June, 1S64; brevet 
captain 1H65. Served on the C. S. ironrlad steamer Metrimac during her whole career; rescued and carried her flag to 
Drewry's Blutt and assisted in repelling tlie Federal navy in its attempt to force passage to Richmond. Afterward served 
on C. S. S Chattahoochee and Atlanta. Ran the blockade at Charleston. S. C., May 23. 1&63, and under special orders 
served abroad eighteen months; when, returning, ran blockadt; at Wilmington, N. C, December, 1864; ordered as fir=i 
lieutenant to C. S. S. \'irginia. flagship of the James river squadron; and served later in the naval brigade commanded 
by Admiral Semmes. 

Engaged in U. S. Navy Department, compiling Confederate naval records. 



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ARMORl-.I) WAR SHIPS. 

Navy Departmknt, ( 

Washingion. May 2S, 1895. ) 
Jo/iii C. UnJci-'uood, Maj -Grit. Commniidiiii; : 

My Dbar Genkral — In reply to your kind request thai 1 should respond to the 
toast to the C. S. Navy, and relate the Merrimac's career, upon the grand occasion of 
the unveiling of a Confederate monument in Chicago. I beg to state that her career was 
too statistical to be made interesting in a speech within your limits. I submit my 
remarks as a matter of history. The main facts are taken from my jouru.d kept at tlie 
time and are verified by the record. Facts should hurt no one. 
Afleotionatelv and fraternally yours 

H hp:vi-:klv littlepac;e 




T H E M E R R I M AC AN D M O NM T O R , 

By CAPT. H BEVERLY LITTLEI'AC.E 
Of Virginia 

The 8th and 9th of March. 1862. marked two of the most startling 
and important engagements in the annals of naval warfare. The 
Mi'rrimac's gnns 011 the eighth sonntied the deatfi knell of the then existing 
navies of the world. Her guns and the Monitor's on the ninth proclaimed, 
in tones of thnnder. the birth of the new navies — wooden ships were no 
longer war shl[>s. 

Large prizes were offered for impenetrable armors and like prizes for 
irresistible projectiles. There was hurrying everywhere to keep apace 
with the new conditions ilhistrateei by the Merrimac. the creation of a 
nation yet unborn. 



A SHORT SKETCH OF THE: MERRIMAC AXD HER CAREER 

Upon the hasty evacuation of Norfolk by the United States forces 
on the 20th of April, 1861. among the ships burned, was the frigate 
Merrimac. She was rescued from the flames by the \'irginia state 
troops, there assembling, when she had burned almost to the water's 
edge. About one month later she was floated and docked, and ten 
months after became an armored ram, rechristened "\'irginia," better 
known as the •'Merrimac. ' 

On the Sth day of March, 18(12, the Merrimac about 11:00 a. m., 
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the Elizabeth river. Immediately there was great commotion among 
the shipping at Fortress Monroe, the merchant craft getting out of the 
way, and the war ships preparing for action; among the latter were the 
frigates Minnesota, forty-eight guns; St. Lawrence, fifty guns; Roanoke, 
forty guns; Brandywine, fifty guns, besides numerous gunboats carrying 
from one to five guns each. As soon as the Merrimac reached fair 
channel-way, she headed for Newport News, distant ten miles from the 
mouth of Elizabeth river and six miles from Fortress Monroe, all in plain 
view, where lay quietly at anchor the frigate Congress, fifty guns, and 
Cumberland, twenty-four guns, under cover of a strongly fortified 
shore battery of twenty guns. The Merrimac was really an experiment. 
Her sides were inclined at an angle of thirty-four degrees and consisted 
of eighteen inches of heart-pine, four inches of oak and four inches of 
iron, in rolled plates. Her battery of ten guns: Two 7-inch rifies, 
two 6.4-inch rifles, and six g-inch smooth bore, of which last, two 
were arranged for hot shot. She also had a cast-iron prow. 

With her ten guns she was about to engage some of the most powerful 
war ships then known, carrying more than three hundred heavy guns, 
besides the shore battery at Newport News. The action began in earnest 
about 2:40 p. m., when the Merrimac exchanged broadsides at 400 yards 
with the Congress as she passed her on her way to ram the Cumberland, 
which vessel she reached a few minutes later,, and when within fifty 
yards, fired a seven-inch rifled percussion shell at her water line; this was 
returned with a broadside from the Cumberland which would literally 
have driven to the bottom any other ship afloat, except the Monitor, 
which appeared on the scene a day later. The Merrimac dashed on 
through the rafts and spars arranged to sheer her off and struck the 
Cumberland with her prow, under her starboard fore chains. The Cum- 
berland hung for a few moments upon the Merrimac's stem, then glided 
off and filled rapidly, and in fifteen or twent}' minutes had settled to her 
topsail yards, her flag still flying at her peak and her last guns firing as 
they disappeared beneath the water. The Merrimac's armor had been 
heavily slushed and in the pouring rain of shell she seemed to be frying 
from one end to the other, and the burning grease and sulphur which 
filled her close quarters was calculated to make an old tar quake for his 
hereafter which seemed then to be close at hand. 

The Merrimac moved sluggishly with her keel dragging in the mud. 
As the smoke settled over and around her, the thousands of spectators 
on shore supposed she had gone to the bottom. So sure were those on 
the Congress of it, that they cheered lustily. When a little breeze 
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and the Merrimac heading for her. She slipped her cable, set sail, and 
endeavored to escape, but in doing so grounded with her head inshore. 
The Merrimac tollowed with all speed and took position about two hun- 
dred and fift}- yards under her stern. The Minnesota, St. Lawrence, and 
Roanoke were bearing down as rapidl\- as possible and must soon be in 
the action. The Congress fought as gallantly as a ship could fight under 
the circumstances. Her stern guns were all soon dismounted, and she 
was utterly helpless under the fearful raking fire of the Merrimac's 
broadsides. 

Being on fire in many places from the Merrimac's hot shot and shell, 
she relunctantly struck her colors and signaled for assistance. 

Many of her gallant crew perished in her flames, but most of them 
escaped ashore or were taken prisoners. Fortunately for the Minnesota, 
she grounded in the north channel where the Merrimac could not reach 
her. The St. Lawrence and Roanoke soon took in the situation, deliv- 
ered their broadsides as they rounded, and escaped back to Fortress 
Monroe. The Merrimac took position as near as she could get to the 
Minnesota, fired a few broadsides across the bar, but darkness soon com- 
pelled her to return to her moorings off Sewell's Point. The burning 
Congress lighted up the Roads until midnight when her magazine 
exploded, then the darkness on one side was intensified with gloom and 
on the other radiant with joy. Such is war! 

Early the next morning all were astir on the Merrimac and eager to 
return and finish the Minnesota if our guns could reach her. Owing to 
the smallness of the Merrimac's ports her guns could only range about 
one mile. Soon as light enough we discovered what appeared to be a 
raft alongside the Minnesota. The crew thought she was sending 
machinery and munitions ashore. As soon as we put our glasses upon 
her, we recognized what was then called "Ericsson's Batter3'" (of which 
we had an exact cut and description), better known afterward as the 
"Monitor." 

She had been built especially to fight the Merrimac. Had the order 
of Hon. Secretary Welles been obeyed, she should have been in the 
Potomac river below Alexandria. However that may be. she was on 
the "ground" and full of fight, although she had by the merest chance 
escaped going to the bottom in a topsail breeze off the Delaware Capes. 

The Merrimac proceeded to attack the Minnesota, lying at the 
extreme range of her guns. 

The Monitor opened fire with her eleven-inch guns and advanced to 
within 500 yards, when she stopped, but continued firing as if to test the 
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Being totally- unprepared for figliting an armored vessel, liaving 
nothing but shells for our guns, we declined to develop the situation. 
She soon after advanced and attempted to cross our bows. The Merri- 
mac advanced at full speed and rammed her, but soon discovered that 
she had struck her with her naked stem causing her (the Merrimac 1 to 
leak. Her prow was afterward found in the Cumberland. This probably 
saved the Monitor from the Cumberland's fate. After a fearful combat 
of five hours, when they were frequentlv only a few yards apart, the 
Merrimac succeeded in dislodging the Monitor's pilot house and blinding 
and otherwise disabling her gallant commander who then gave the order 
to sheer off. 

The Monitor hauled over the bar where the Merrimac could not pur- 
sue her, as the Merrimac drew more than twice as much water, 22 '2 feet 
against loyi feet. The Merrimac had already been hard and fast 
aground for twenty to thirty minutes trying to reach the Minnesota and 
did not care to experiment longer with the uncertain middle ground or 
bar. .'\bout 1:00 o'clock p. m. to all appearances the Monitor had 
retired from the action, as stated by the gallant commander of the Min- 
nesota, and the Merrimac returned to Norfolk, as there was nothing 
above Fortress Monroe within reach of her guns. She immediately 
went into dock for repairs; her prow had been left in the Cumberland, 
two of her guns had been shot off, one at the muzzle and the other near 
the trunnions, her smokestack a sieve, and her armor elbowed and in 
ridges, besides, she was to be equipped for fighting an armored vessel. 
Within one month she was ready. Her armor was intact and extended, 
a wrought-iron steel-pointed prow replaced the lost cast-iron one, two 
good guns replaced those shot in two, wrought and chilled iron, steel- 
pointed bolts replaced the shells, boarding parties with sledge hammers 
and malleable wedges for the Monitor's turret, the cable coiled forward 
to be taken around the turret and shackled, the most combustible 
material to be broken through her turret and ventilators and fired, 
and lastly a gang with a tarpaulin to envelop her upon a cry for quarters. 
Upon the Merrimac's return to Hampton Roatis on the iith of April, no 
one on her doubted that she would either leave the Monitor at the bot- 
tom or bring her back to Norfolk. 

The Monitor was then lying at the mouth of the Elizabeth river, 
pulilishing to the world that she was blockading the Merrimac. Unfor- 
tunately for the Merrimac the army steamer White (flag of truce boat) 
deserted on the day before (.'Vpril 10) and e.xposed the Merrimac's prep- 
arations and plans; so when the Monitor saw her coming on the morn- 
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Monroe. The Meriiniac signaled her tenders, the Jamestown and 
Raleigh, to go in and cut out a brig and some schooners lying above the 
Fortress. They did so, took them in tow. and were heartily cheered by 
the British ship Rinaldo and the French ship Gassendi as they passes 
in with the prizes The Monitor antl other powerful ships did not inter- 
fere. The Merrimac remained in the roads the whole da}', and after- 
ward returned at tre(iuent inter\als, until the evacuation of Norfolk, 
caused by the advance of McClellan's arm}- upon Richmond via the 
peninsula. 

The most daring e.xploit of the Merrimac was on May 8, 1S62. She 
was on that morning lying at the navy yard preparing to ascend James 
river in obedience to orders from the department. She had her fires 
banked until about 1:00 p. m. when a terrific bombardment was heard off 
Sewell's Point and the shells were seen streaking and exploding over 
that battery which had been virtually abandoned, only four guns and 
some deco\s left. The Merrimac's fires were immediately hauled and 
she hastened to the conflict. Upon rounding Crane\- island the ironclads, 
Monitor, Naugatuck, and Steven's Battery, were seen close inshore, 
another line composed of the llnited States steamers Susquehanna, seven- 
teen guns; Dacotah, six guns; Seminole, five guns, and San Jacinto, 
twelve guns. Just beyond the attacking squadron, but in plain view, 
were the flagship Minnesota, forty-eight guns; Cayuga, six guns; James- 
town, twenty-two guns; St. Lawrence, fifty guns, and the powerful fast 
steamers Vanderbilt, Baltimore, Illinois, and Arago, especially arranged 
and equipped for running the INIerrimac down. The Merrimac continued 
on at full speed and as soon as she got within range of the nearest 
vessels, in obedience to a signal from the flagship, they all proceeded at 
full speed beyond Fortress Monroe, the Merrimac continuing the pur- 
suit until opened on by the forts. 

When Norfolk was e\-acuated by the Confederates on the iilh of 
May, 1862, the Merrimac was blown up by her own crew. Having seen 
the Galena, Monitor, and other vessels pass up James river they hurried 
to Drewry's Bluff, hoisted their old flag, and upon the appearance of those 
vessels on the morning of the 15th of Ma)', together w ith the crews of 
the Confederate States' vessels then in the river, liad four guns on the 
bluff. The vessels came into action beautifully. The Galena was struck 
twenty-eight times and penetrated eighteen; the rest fared little better. 
They hastily retired. The officers and crew of the Merrimac were soon 
disbanded, as an organization, and formed into nuclei for our \'oimg 
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MAJ GEN L I L(>MA\ 

DURING THE SIXTIES. 




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GENERAL ATTENDANCE. 

There were many distinguisheil people present who took no active 
part in the ceremonies, althougli the}' strengthened the party of guests 
by tlieir character and in numbers. Among them were : 




MAJ.-GEN. L. L. LOMAX, 

(>f Virginia. 

A cavalry officer of distinction who served with the Arm}- of Northern 
Virginia and who is now engaged in the Confederate war records office 
at Washington City. The half-tone engraving presenting a correct 
likeness of this officer and an etching giving his appearance during the 
sixties, is to be seen on the preceding page, and a skeleton sketch of 
his life will be found in the following: 

BIOGRAPHIC. 

I.unsford Lindsay Lomax was horn in Virginia in 1S35; received early education at 
Norfolk, Va., and graduated at United States iVIilitary .■Academy, in 1.S56. 
Commissioned in United States army: — 

Brevet second lieutenant, Second cavalry. July i, 1S56. second lieutenant First 
cavalry. September 30. 1S56: first lieutenant. March 21, 1861: resigned commission 
April 25, 1861. 

Commissioned in Confederate States armv. — 

Captain state forces of Virginia: lieutenant-colonel and assistant inspector-general. 
1S61-63: colonel Eleventh Virginia ca\alry, February 8, 1S63: brigadier-general P. A. 
C. S.. July 23, 1S63: major-general P. .\. C. S., .August 10, 1864. 



COL. J. B. ERWIN, 

Of South Carolina. 

Entered the Confederate army in 1861 as aid-de-camp on the staff of 
•Gen. Robert Toombs. After Gen. Toombs' retirement he volunteered 
as a private. He was present at the passage of the secession ordinance 
by South Carolina, and saw the firing of the first gun of the civil war, 
and surrendered at Appomattox. He has served in both houses of the 
legislature of South Carolina and is now engaged in the war records 
•office in Washington, D. C. 





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LIEUT. -COL. WHARTON J. GREKN, 

of North Carolina. 

Entered the Confederate army as private and rose to be lieutenant- 
colonel commanding Second North Carolina liattalion. Captured at 
Roanoke island, wounded at Little Washington and later wounded 
and captured at Gettysburg and detained a prisoner of war at Johnson's 
island until near the close of liostilities. Alember of the XL\'III and 
XLIX Congresses. 




LIEUT.-COL. W. F. BEASLEV 



Of New York, 



Entered the Confederate service in 1861 ; made lieutenant Company H 
Forty eighth North Carolina troops, 1862; major Fifth battalion August, 
1864; lieutenant-colonel Seventy-first North Carolina regiment, Decem- 
ber 7, 1864. He is now a Marjland man and claims Baltimore as 
home, though his business location is as recorded above and he attended 
the dedication as the accredited representative of the ex-Confederate 
association of New^ York Cit\'. 



CAPT. JOHN WATERS DREW, 

Of Washington. D C. 

Although a citizen of the District of Columbia, where he is actively 
engaged in business, he still cherishes the ties given birth and estab- 
lished by his army life in \'irginia; and his genial disposition, frank and 
open manner made him a favorite wherever he went, so much so, that 
all will be glad to read the following sketch: 



BIOGKAI'HIC. 

John Waters Drew was born in Washington, D. C, May 3, 1842. 
Educated at Columbia College, that city- 
Enlisted in Company F, First Virginia infantry. C S A , .\pril. 1S61: promoted 
captain of the Twenty-third Virginia cavalry in 1862: engaged in the battles of 
Manassas, Seven Pines, Coal Harbor, Seven Days' fight around Richmond and through 
the entire campaigns in the valley of Virginia during 1863-64. 

Was captured at the battle of Winchester September ig. 1864, and released July. 1865- 
Since the war he has been successfully engaged in the drug business. 




SERGT.-MAj. S. A. CUNNINGHAM, 

DURING THE SIXTIES. 




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The "press" of the south was repr^'sented througli the presence of 
the editor and proprietor of the miHtary organ that reaches the veteran 
soldiery throughout its sunny cHme, thereby insuring the Coiifciieratt- 
Veteran, the ofScial organ of the "United Confederate Veterans," 
"United Daughters of the Confederacy" and "Sons of Veterans" in 
Dixie land a voice in the heralding of the procedures of the great 
occasion by 







COL. S. A. CUNNINGHAM. 

Of Tennessee. 

Who publishes his periodical in the City of Nashville, having established 
it there three j'ears ago. He was a bo)' soldier during the war and has 
spent nian\' of his mature years in journalism, with varying fortunes, all 
culminating in the great success his "monthly" has justly met with. As 
a soldier during the civil war, because of his youth, he was the "pet" of 
the regiment and after the bloody battle of Franklin, where he displayed 
judgment and courage beyond his years, his valor drew him even nearer 
to the rank and file of the command. The engraving on the opposite 
page correctly represents him as he appears at present and tlie etching 
shows the boy soldier in his "teens." His determined efiort now to 
keep alive events of historic importance through the medium of his 
periodical is worthy of the highest commendation, and the following out- 
line of the man will be found interesting: 



BIOGK.APHIC. 

Sumner .Archibald CunninL;li.ini was born in l^edford count}'. Tenn . July 21. 1S43; 
educated at Richmond College, Tennessee, iS59-()i, and completed education after the 
war in 1865. 

Enlisted as private in Company B. Forty-first regiment infantry, Tennessee volun- 
teers. November 4, iSGi. Engaged in the battle of Fort Donelson. where the entire 
regiment was captured February 16. 1S62, Imprisoned at Camji Morton, Indianapolis, 
and exchanged at Vicksburg. September, 1S62. 

Took part in the following battles: Springdale and Raymond. Miss . siege of Vicks- 
burg, Port Hudson and Jackson, great battle of Chickamauga and the Johnston-Sherman 
100 days' fighting in Georgia, and under Hood in the bloody engagement at Franklin 
and disasters that followed. Promoted to first sergeant of his company, and serxed much 
of his time as sergeant-major of the regiment. 

Engaged in journalism after the war. owned the Chattanooga Daily Thins. iSyo-So 
and was connected with other daily and weekly papers of Tennessee. 

Established the CcnfeJetalc Vctcytin in January. 1S1J3. of which he is editor and 
proprietor. 




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COL. A. J. WEST, 

yuartermaster GenerHl of Georgia, 

Was another of the distinguished ex-soldiers present, a captain in the 
Confederate army during tlie war and was engaged in all of the battles 
fought by the Western army, except when disabled by the many wounds 
received. At Perry viile, Ky. , he was very severely wounded and dis- 
tinguished himself for bravery on that sanguinary field. Since the war 
his military tendencies and e.\ecutive ability have brought him to the 
front in the state militia, where he has rendered much valuable service, 
being at present the supply executive on the gubernatorial staff. He 
wears the jeweled-scar insignia of his distinguished battle record and 
enjoys the military bearing so marked in the southern soldier. 



MAJ. J. L. McCOLLUM, 

Of Georgia. 

One of the prominent representatives from the "empire state of the 
south," was the accomplished superintendent of the Western & Atlantic 
railroad. He, also, was a Confederate soldier and won laurels at the 
front and is now a railroad man of that prominent activity which has 
made the "great battlefield route of Georgia," the popular channel of 
travel between Chattanooga and Atlanta. He it was who aided so mater- 
ially in collecting and transporting the many refrigerator carloads of 
fiowers from the south with which the Confederate monument, Douglas 
prison interment trenches and the graves of the few Union soldiers 
buried in Oakwoods cemetery were decorated. 



MAJ. J. M. COUFER, 

Of Georgia, 

Was also of the Georgia party, and is assistant postmaster of Atlanta. 
He was a distinguished Confederate soldier during the si.xties and came 
to Chicago to attend the dedication as one of the committee from the 
central south. 

COL. W. R. LYMAN, 

Of Louisiana. 

This accomplished officer, with a bevy of ladies, represented New 
Orleans, and was instrumental in securing the carload of flowers that 
was sent from that city. He is one of the most prominent and influ- 
ential of the Crescent City's business men, and distinguished himself as 
a soldier during the war. 



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COL. T. \V. CAMPBELL, 

C)t Kentuck^ 
This gentleman was an officer of the Union army chirini; the sixties and 
by his mihtary abihty and meritorious conduct reached the grade of 
heutenant-colonel of vohmteers. He served in various commands and 
was during a period of 1 1X64-5 provost-marshal at Bowling Green, Ky. , 
where the author was required to report to him under conditions of his 
parole; and, notwithstanding the restrictions imposed and some mutual 
misunderstandings at the time, a fast friendship grew out of the official 
intercourse and exists between the former captor and captive, so sincere 
that of all the guests in attendance none were more welcome or more 
enthusiastically received, and the greatest personal gratification to the 
writer was the presence of his friend who formerly held him prisoner. 
After the war Col. Campbell was U. S. assessor of income tax in Ken- 
tucky, and later connected with the government pension bureau of the 
state, and is now actively in business in Louisville, Ky. 



COM. J. E. MONTGOMERY, 

Of Louisiana. 

Was one of the attendants possessing a naval record; an original 
steamboat captain of the western waters, he had constructed under 
his direction and commanded many of the palatial steamers that graced 
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers during the fifties, and, therefore, with 
his extensive constructive and river experience, he easily obtained a 
prominent place in the Confederate navy, and by merit rose to the 
position he occupied at the close of the war. 



COL. J. S. BELKNAP. 

Of Nfw York. 

This officer commanded the Eighty-fifth regiment New York vol- 
unteers, United States arm\-, during a portion of the past hostilities; and 
so thoroughly did he endorse the fraternizing movement that he attended 
and took part in the Confederate memorial parade and subseijuent 
ceremonies. 

ASSISTANTS AT HE ADOUARTERS. 

Chas. R. Macloon, as press agent and reportorial assistant, was of 
the greatest possible service in publishing and promulgating information 
of various characters, his services and those of the office force at the 
Palmer House headquarters were invaluable, and to the members of such 
operative staff the greatest appreciation is hereby expressed. 




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MAJ.-GEN. E. C. WALTHALL, 

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GENS. WALTHALL AND JACKSON. 

Two of the most prominent Confederate generals of the Western 
army, now living, and who gave countenance to the erection of a Con- 
federate monument in Chicago are Maj.-Gen. E. C. Walthall, United 
States senator from Mississippi, and Brig. -Gen. Wm. H. Jackson, the 
noted proprietor of "Belle Meade Farm" near Nashville, Tenn. 

These officers distinguished for their military abilit}-, soldierly tact 
and personal gallantry, were unable to attend tlu- ceremonies at Chicago 
much to the regret of those wlio were present, for all desired to see 
and again press the hands of the two men who were most active in cover- 
ing the retreat of Hood's army, after the disastrous Tennessee campaign 
and battles about Nashville. 

The following condensation of historic publications will be found 
interesting: 

"On December 20. 1864. Gen. Hood sent to Gen. Walthall a request to call and see 
him immediately, and as Gen. Walthall approached army headquarters, he met Gen. 
Hond, mounted, and he (Hood) substantially said: 'Walthall, thin.s^s art- in a bad con- 
dition I ha\e resohed to reorKanize the rear suard. Forrest says he can't keep the 
enemy oft of us any longer without a strong infantry support, but says he can do it with 
the help of j,ooo infantry with you to command them. You can select any troops in the 
army It is a post of great honor, but one of such great peril that I will not impose it 
on you unless you are willing to take it, and you had better take troops that can be 
relietl upon, for you may have to cut your way through to get to ine after the main army 
gets out. The army must be saved, come what may. and, if necessary, your command 
must be sacrificed to accomplish it ' Gen. Walthall in reply said. 'General, I have 
never asked for a hard place for glory, nor a soft place for comfort, but take my chances 
as they come. Give me the order for the troops, and 1 will do my best,. Being the 
youngest major-general in the arm\ , 1 believe, my seniors may complain that the place 
was not offered to them, but that is a matter between you and them;' and Hood said, 
'Forrest wants you. and I want you ' Gen, Forrest rode up during the conversation and 
said: 'Now we will keep them back ' .\nd Hood gave verbal orders for Walthall to 
take any troops he wanted. 

Gen. Walthall selected eight brigades, estimated at 3,000 effectives, but really only 
1, 600 strong, .'^nd Walthall's infantry division formed of the skeleton brigades, with a 
condensed division of cavalry under Brig -Gen, Wm. H. Jackson, the whole under com- 
mand of Lieut, -Gen N, B. Forrest, succeeded in checking the pursuit made by the Union 
forces, and enabled the army to cross the Tennessee river in comparative safety. Too 
much praise cannot be given both Gens Walthall and Jackson and their determined 
commands tor their skill, fortitude and dashing bravery. 

The following biographic sketches will convey something of the characters of the 
commanders specially named: 




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MAJ.-GEN. E. C. WALTHALL, 

of Mississippi. 

KIOf.RAI'HIC. 

Edward Cary Walthall of Cirenad.i, Miss., was born in Richmond, Va . .April 4, 
1831: received an academic education and studied law at Holly Springs, Miss 

Admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law at Coffeeville, Miss , in 1^52; 
district attorney 1856-61; resigned in sprinK of 1S61 and entered the Confederate army. 

Lieutenant. Fifteenth regiment infantry, Mississippi volunteers; lieutenant-colonel 
of that regiment, April, 1861; colonel, Twenty-ninth regiment infantry, Mississippi 
volunteers, April 11, 1862; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S., December 13, 1862; major- 
general, P. A. C. S.. June 6, 1S64; participated in all the battles of the Western army. 

Practiced law 18(35-85; delegate-at-large to national Democratic convention 1868. 
76, 80 and 84; United States senator, by appointment March 12, 1885, and by election 
January, 1886, for unexpired term; re-elected January, 18S8, and again January, 1892; 
resigned in January, 1894, on account of ill health; resumed his seat March, 1S95, by 
virtue of his election in 1892; re-elected and term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 



BRIG. -GEN. VVM. H. JACKSON, 



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William Hicks Jackson was born at Paris, Tenn., October i, 1835, his parents being 
natives of Virginia; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1856 

Commissioned in the United States army: Brevet second lieutenant, mounted 
rifles, July i, 1856; second lieutenant, December 30, 1856. 

Instructor at cavalry school, Carlisle, Pa,, one year, on frontier service i>^~ij-in. and 
resigned May 16, i86i; serving under Cols. Chas. May and W. W. Loring. 

Commissioned in Confederate States army: Captain, battery of artillery, Tenn- 
essee volunteers. May to Noveniber. 1861; colonel. Seventh regiment cavalry, Tenn- 
essee volunteers, 1862; brigadier-general P. A. C. S., December 29, 1862; division and 
corps commander and commissioner for parole of troops, at later periods of the war. 

Promoted for gallantry and effectiveness at battle of Holly Springs, Miss., and 
recommended for promotion because of his bravery and skill in commanding the cavalry 
covering Gen. Hoods retreat, etc. 

Planter after the war; he organized the National Agricultural Congress and, as the 
outgrowth of its first meeting at Nashville, Tenn., were the organization of all other 
farmers' associations in the United States. 

President of National Agricultural Congress of the Farmers' Association of Tenn- 
essee and of the Bureau of Agriculture for that state. 

First president of the Safe Deposit, Trust and Banking Company; president of the 
electric street railroad, and of the gas company, all of Nashville; and chairman of 
the executive committee of the proposed Tennessee Centennial exposition in 1896. 

Is the hospitable owner and resides at " Belle Meade," near Nashville. 




MRS. SARAH BELL WALLER, 
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THE GOOD SAMARITANS OF CAMP 
DOUGLAS PRISON. 

The ladies, now deceased and tlius specially referred to, were most 
acti\e in the relief of the distressed prisoners confined in Camp Douglas; 
and the following accounts of their philanthropic and Christian actions 
enrich the history of the noble deeds of women. 

MRS. SAR.\H BELL W.'\LLEK. 



Miss Sarah Bell Langhorne. daughter nf John T and Eliza B Langhorne. was Ijorn 
November 17, 1S21, in Maysville, Ky.. her father being a Virginian, and descendant of 
Sir William Langhorne, the first earl of Gainsborough, Hampstead Heath, near London, 
England, and her mother the daughter of Col. Devall Payne of Kentucky, a great-uncle 
of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and the great-grandson of Sir John Payne of Wales. Miss 
Langhorne received an excellent education and an early religious training, and on May 
3, 1837, married Henry Waller, Esq, Mr. Waller practiced law in Maysville, and 
resided there and in Mason county, Ky., until November, i860, when he moved his 
family to Chicago, and dwelt on Ashland avenue over twenty years. Mrs. Waller was 
noted for her fine social qualities, mental attainments, kindness of heart and determined 
character, which attractions won for her admiring associates in whatever circle she 
moved. An eminently handsome woman, intelligent, graceful and dignified she possessed 
great resolution and a high sense of justice, and, withal, an energetic diplomacy that 
generally enabled her to succeed in whatever she undertook 

During the civil war of 1861-65 Mrs. Waller was the most untiring, persevering and 
efficient friend of the Confederate soldiers confined as prisoners of war in Camp Douglas, 
which prison stockade, from the beginning to the close of the war, she visited every few 
days with clothing for the ragged veterans, and delicacies and hospital stores for the 
sick. Her work was accomplished with system, in a thoroughly honorable and business 
way under permission from the commanding officer of the prison. Many thousands of 
thinly clothed prisoners of war were brought to Camp Douglas in mid-winter, and 
coming from a warm climate and being totally unprepared for the extreme rigor of the 
inclement weather on the shore of Lake Michigan, thousands contracted pneumonia 
from exposure, and, the disease becoming epidemic, hundreds died. Mrs. W.iller .ind 
her assistants, among them notably, Mrs, Mary B. Morris, of Chicago, enlisting in the good 
work friends in Kentucky, Maryland and New York, obtained generous donations which 
enabled them to comfortably clothe most of the destitute prisoners, not with uniformity, 
but by utilizing every possible article of clothing donated from afar, or that might and 
could be purchased. Yet to shoe the ten to twenty thousand prisoners was a seeming 
impossibility. However, this good Samaritan woman was equal to the emergency, and 
finding among the southern prisoners a score or more shoemakers willing to work, she, with 
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enabled to furnish, the old shoes were repaired and such new shoes made as sufficed to 
supply the totally destitute and others in greatest need of them. That problem was no 
sooner solved than the question of furnishing trousers to the thousands became an almost 
hopeless task, made more difficult becaus" of the mandate from the secretary of war, 
prohibiting the ^>u!si(/^ furnishing of prisoners with clothing other than of "butternut 
color." Mrs. Waller secured a sample of butternut colored jeans and a piece of blue 
kersey, experimented with success, and finally discovered that the blue cloth could be 
dyed so as to produce a fairly good butternut color. At first 300 pairs of condemned 
Federal blue pantaloons were purchased, and, through the dying process, they were 
converted into regulation butternut garments. This problem was solved, and by 
furnishing the needy with portions of raiment at a time, she finally obtained reasonably 
comfortable clothing for the destitute. 

The prisoners from Arkansas Poit. Fort Donelson, Island No. 10. Shiloh. and 
from most of the battlefields in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, who were con- 
fined in Camp Douglas, will undoubtedly ever remember Mrs, Waller and her lady 
assistants with sincerest gratitude and affection When it is remembered that the (."hicago 
surroundings at that time were among the bitterest in the north, and that Mrs Waller 
was handicapped by arbitrary rules and restrictions from the war office in Washington, 
the great perseverance, determination and bravery of this whole souled, noblewoman in 
the untiring energy of her humane purpose (faithfully discharged through four long 
years), is deserving of memorial mention here, the monumental tablet being written on 
the hearts of thousands of sufferers made glad by her ministrations, a noble heritage 
to philanthropic charity and true Christian love. 



MRS. MARY B. MORRIS. 



Mrs. Mary B. Morris was the daughter of Col. Blackburn of Woodford county. Ky., 
and sister of Gov. Luke P. Blackburn and the present Senator Jos. C. S. Blackburn of 
that state. She was the accomplished wife of Judge Buckner S. Morris, and resided in 
Chicago previous to and during the war between the states. 

She was a most charming and noble woman, with a heart that was filled with love 
and charity. Little wonder then when she saw the pitiable condition of the Confederate 
prisoners of war, many of whom were related to her by the ties of consanguinity, all by 
the ties of friendship, that she should take a deep interest in their welfare, and do all in 
her power to relieve their wants, and add to their comfort. This she did with a gen- 
erous and lavish hand, visiting Camp Douglas daily, bringing with her clothing, hats and 
shoes, and distributing them among the prisoners all of whom were in sore need. of them. 
She continued these visits until the gates of the prison were closed against her, and all 
others 

She will always be held in grateful remembrance by the men who were prisoners of 
war at Camp Douglas, who survive their great benefactress. 




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P R ( ) M I N E N T P E R S O N S 

WHO HAVE COUNTENANCED THE 




MONUMENTING OF DECEASED CONFEDERATES 



AS HISTORIC PARTS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERY. 

Endorsement by one of the most important Union officers: 
MAj.-GEN. LEWIS B. PARSONS, 

of Illinois 
Chief of Kail and Ki\er Transportation U- S A . during the civil war 

Many letters were written to Gen. Underwood by Gen. Parsons 
direct, but the following, transmittin.t;' a donation to the monument fund 
through Gen. John C. Black, is so full of noble sentiments that it is 
reproduced here for the edification of all who may have the pleasure of 
reading it: 

Geii. John C. Bln.k : 

Mv Dear Genekai- — 1 am glad to see a monument is being erected in cosmopolitan 
Chicago in memory of the Confederate dead, for which I enclose a small contribution (a 
check for $10.00 is referred toj. Brave men ever respect bravery in friend or foe, and 
all the more when accompanied with great sacrifices and suffering for a cause believed to 
be just, though history may render a different verdict, .-ynd, surely, rarely have men 
been more daring, or periled more, or suffered more, or gi\'en stronger evidence of acting 
from conviction than did those who wore the gray. Again, as we desire a perfect 
restored Union — a Union based on hearts, as well as on laws, and more than on conquest, 
every motive of interest as well as of kindred prompts to fraternal action. 

To err is human, to forgive is divine. I hope that the time is not far distant when on 
a common commemoration day the blue and the gray may join in placing flowers on the 
graves of their fallen brothers. Does truest loyalty forbid the tribute of a flower — aye. of 
a tearr* Does an Englishman in reading of the daring deeds of the War of the Roses 
pause before applauding to consider on which side they occurred' 

Twin monuments throughout our land will in ages to come be but tributes to heroic 
deeds of men of a common origin, brothers of a gallant race; evidences, too. that from 
conflicts past has arisen a stronger nationality, a higher and better civilization, based on 
what alone can he enduring — charity — a common brotherhood, the foundation of an 
enlightened Christianity, challenging the respect and admiration of mankind. As always. 

Very truly yours, 

LEWIS B. PARSONS. 

BIOGRAPHIC. 

Lewis Baldwin Parsons was born in Genessee county, N Y., .April 5. 1S18. He 
received a collegiate education and was graduated "A. B. " by Yale in 1S40, with ".A. M." 
conferred in 1843, and "LL. B." by Harvard in 1S44 





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City attornev of Alton, 111. iS46-4S. Attorney and president ()hio\ Mississippi 
railroad, 1854-61 and 1S77-7S. 

Commissioned in the United States army: Captain of volunteers. October ji. iSGi: 
colonel and A. D. C. to Maj.-Gen. Halleck. April 4. 1862: brigadier-general. May 11, 
1S65. by autographic order ot President I.incoln, for special services rendered; brevet- 
major-general, April 30. 1 866 

He had charge ot rail and river transportation of the .\rmies of tlie United States; 
and his successful movement of large bodies was pronounced by Secretary ol War 
Stanton, "without a parallel " 

Member of G- A. R and companion of Lo),il Legion. His whole character is 
broad, liberal and elevated 




INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 

Some ten years after the final interment of the Camp Douglas prison 
Confederate dead in the government plot of Oakwoods cemetery, 
Chicago, a thicket of saplings and sprouts had grown so entirel)' over 
the three acres as to hide the mounds of the grave-trenches and make 
a forest-wild nook in the limits of that silent city of the dead. 

On the 30ih of May, 1S76, Decoration Day, Whittier Post, No. 10, 
G. A. R. of Chicago, Capt. Charles R. E. Koch, commanding, and Milliard 
Post, No. 34, G. A. R. of Englewood, Capt. J. T. Foster, command- 
ing, joined in decorating the graves of Union soldiers buried in Oak- 
woods, and, after such ceremonies were completed, the united bodies of 
Grand Army veterans under the command of Capt. Koch (senior 
officer), marched to the ■■Confederate thicket" and, trampling the under- 
brush, pushed through the rank growths of young trees, briars and 
weeds and strewed northern flowers over the .graves of the southern 
soldiers there buried; antl Comrade DeWolff of Hilliard Post offered a 
short and appropriate sentiment, setting forth the spirit in which such 
visitation was made. 

This was the first reco.gnition of the Confederate dead in Chicago, 
and all praise is due Capt. (now colonel) Koch and his associates for 
the conception and execution of such humane movement. 

The following incidents are relateil and illustrate the character of : 



COL. CHAS. R. E. KOCH, 

of Cliicago. 

When Gen. John B. Gordon visited Chicago in iSgi, the First regiment infantry. 
I. N. G.. Col. Chas. R. E. Koch commanding, served as special escort to the dis- 
tinguished southerner; and the colonel in his liberality of feeling, directed the regi- 
mental band master to arrange a march in which "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle" should 
be blended, as a musical tender of the "h.ind-shake over the bloody chasm." The 




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harmonic eftusion was thoroughly appreciated by every one who beard it, for all recog- 
nized in it an emphasis and refrain of Gen. Grant's dictum: "Let us have peace." 

Capt. John Geo. Ryan, Confederate States cavalry, was a prisoner of war on parole 
in July, 1865, and was making arrangements at Memphis, to go into the newspaper busi- 
ness at Pine Bluff, Ark., when on the 22d of that month he was arrested, placed in con- 
finement and taken to the old Capitol prison, Washington, D. C, under the accusation of 
being the missing John H. Surratt, one of J, Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators in the assas- 
sination of President Lincoln. 

In September 1865 a number of prisoners were turned over to Capt. C. R. E. Koch 
provost marshal of the western district of Mississippi at 'Vicksburg, and one of them, of 
slender build and fragile look, was handcuffed and wore a ball and chain fastened to his 
ankles. This unusual weight of iron caused the provost marshal to conclude that the party 
must be a great criminal, but on looking over the roll of prisoners he learned that there 
was no charge whatever entered up against this man. Having no right to hold anyone 
without an accusation, he at once reported the case to Gen. H. W. Slocura, then com- 
manding the Department of Mississippi, who directed that the prisoner be held pending 
an inquiry from the war department at Washington, whence he came. 

Capt. Koch thoroughly believing the prisoner's story, that he was not the missing 
Surratt, which he took pains to substantiate through his detective force, ordered the 
iron fetters removed at once and gave him as good quarters as historic jail No. i 
afforded, and as time progressed placed Capt. Ryan under parole and allowed him to- 
spend the afternoons out of jail, on condition that he would return at sundown to be 
locked up. 

It was not till some time in November that instructions came from Washington 
ordering that J. G. Ryan "be released from military custody and be suffered to resume 
the status of an ordinary prisoner of war under parole." This order w'as promptly 
executed by the provost marshal, but as the "mysterious prisoner" represented that he 
was without means to proceed to Memphis and resume his business prospects that had 
been so suddenly cut off in July by United States officers, the provost marshal informed 
him that as the United States had captured him at Memphis he would receive trans- 
portation and subsistence to that place To procure this he (the provost marshal) 
reported the details of the case to Gen. Osterhaus, the district commander, and 
asked that, as an act of simple justice, the quartermaster department be ordered to 
furnish the necessary transportation. This was flatly refused, the general stating that 
the government was not then "furnishing transportation to rebels." Capt. Koch 
consequently interceded with the managment of the theater for a benefit of his quondam 
prisoner, which resulted in quite a liberal purse being presented to Capt, Ryan to 
enable him to return to his former base of operation. It is needless to say the provost 
marshal and his friends assisted in the financial success of the benefit performance. 

The district commander shortly after recommended every officer serving on his 
staff for brevet rank promotion except the provost marshal, thereby disregarding nearly 
four years of loyal service in the cause of the Union, with several special commendations 
for merit, because of his "unwarranted sympathy for a rebel,' and the captain naturally 
asks, was that justice^ Such are the prejudices in times of war, of patriotic, good, 
able, and, under ordinary circumstances, generous men, that bitterness is not always 
quickly obliterated. 

Capt. Ryan, years after, settled in Chicago, the home of Capt Koch, and he never 
permitted an opportunity to escape him to refer to the courtesies and kindness received 
in 1865, and his constant expressions of gratitude have always been a rich recompense 
for the loss of the brevet commission, to the former provost marshal. 




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HIOGKAPHIC, 

Charles K. E. Koch was born in I'olish Prussia, April 24. 1844. whence his j^arents 
emigrated and settled in Wisconsin while he was very young; received a common school 
education, and went to Chicago alone, in 1859; and studied dentistry in 1860-61. 
At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private in Company G, Seventy-second 
Illinois volunteer infantry (Chicago's first Board of Trade regiment) August, 1862: was 
promoted corporal, sergeant and first sergeant of his company. 

Commissioned captain Forty-ninth United States colored infantry, November 5, 
1863; was detached and acted as aid to Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, adjutant-general United 
States army, until January, 1864. Provost marshal of Yazoo City, Miss., May, 1865; 
promoted provost marshal of the western district of Mississippi, with headquarters 
at Vicksburg, August, 1865, which position he held until honorabl\' mustered out of 
the service March 23, 1866. 

Returning to Chicago, he resumed his studies, and eventually entered the practice 
of dentistry. 

He was one of the organizers and the first presiding officer of the Union Veteran 
club, in January 1877. and was chosen captain of a volunteer company of Union and 
Confederate veterans recruited to protect Chicago at the time of the riots that year. 

Connected with the Illinois National Guard: — 

Private First infantry, August, 1877; captain, October, 1877; major. April, 1886: 
lieutenant-colonel. February, 1888; colonel, April, iS8g — November, 1893. 

Member Illinois State Board of Dental Examiners, September, 1886; became 
secretary and afterward president of the board; the president National Association of 
State Boards of Dental Examiners, in i8go, and was honored by the dental department 
of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo , with degree of D. D. S., in i88g. 

Member of G. H. Thomas Post No. 5, G. A. R. ; has been post commander, 
inspector-general and adjutant-general of the Department of Illinois, G. A. R.; is an 
associate member of the Military Service Association of the United States and member 
of the military order of the Loyal Legion, and the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. 



HON. JOHN T. MORGAN, 

United States Senator from Alabama. 



Washington, D. C , Mav 8, 1S95, 
Gen. John C Underwood. Chtcr^o, III. : 

My Dear General — I would esteem it a duty, as well as a high privilege, to be 
present at the dedication of the monument in Chicago to the Confederate soldiers who 
sleep in Oakwoods cemetery, if I could make my circumstances bend to my wishes. 

Where they grasped the hand of death in proof of their devotion to their ciuse, is a 
fitting place for a memorial of their heroism Those who love the highest examples of 
human sacrifice, when made in obedience to heartfelt convictions, will feel honored by 
the presence of this monument in their midst. It is to a nol)]e enemy that tile true 
soldier loves to do honor To the heroic friend who has died in a cause that we 
espoused, we add the tribute of aftection In the expression of both sentiments toward the 
dead, we celebrate our own estimate of the virtues that cause men even to die for uh.it 
they believe to be their rights and tributes. I cannot be present to unite with \ou in 
this expression of your admiration and love of the Confederate dead at Chicago, hut my 
most earnest sympathies will be yours. Sincerely yours, 

JOHN T MORGAN. 





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PKOMIXENT PERSONAGES 

WHO I ON'TKIlU'TEl) Til THE 

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A. o. slaugiiti:r. 

of Chicago 

Aiiioni; the wealtln' .nentlenien of Cliicago who contributed most 
liberally toward the erection of the monument over the remains of the 
southern soldiers buried in Oakwoods cemetery, is Mr. Slaughter, whose 
excellenth- engraved portrait appears on the previous page. lie in the 
beginning donated a very large amount, in fact, the greatest outlay of 
nicnev given to the purpose, by anv one individual, for which he is 
hereby tendered grateful thanks liv the author, and will ever i)e appreci- 
atively and affectionately remembered by the southern people. The 
following will give, in svnopsis, outlines of his life: 

BIOGR.vrHlC. 

Arthur Or\ ilk- Slaughter was l)urn in Scott county, Ky., .\u,t;iist 31. 1,^41. His 
parents immigrated to Kentucky from Orange and Culpepper counties, Va., and 
when he was four years old they moved to Lafayette county, Mo. He received his 
principal education at the University of Missouri. He espoused the cause of the south 
at the beginning of the civil war, and served under Gen. Sterling Price, in the Missouri 
state guards. Having lost his interest in much property through the emancipation of his 
father's slaves by the government, he at the close of the war went to Chicago and 
engaged in the banking business, which he has continuously and successfully conducted 
ever since. He is a cultivated, enterprising and whole-souled citizen, alive to the interests 
of the great city, his adopted home, and ever recollecting and cherishing the land and 
people of his youth. 

PHILIP D. ARMOUR. 

Of Chicago. 

Is another, among the most prominent, who gave early and liberally to 
the erection of a shaft over the Confederate dead in Chicago, 
having contributed t(.) that tjranite testimonial in Oakwoods in the unos- 
tentatious direct manner, that characteristically stamps all of his 
philanthropies. To him, as to the others, the sincerest thanks are 
hereb\' tendered. 




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POTTER PALMER. 

of Chicago. 

Another of Chicago's Hberal citizens is Mr. Palmer, and the photo- 
engraving on the preceding page is a superb likeness of him. He 
it was who, at the very commencement of the monument movement, 
subscribed liberally to the proposed memorial as a contribution from his 
wife and himself; and later, when the plans for dedicating the monument 
were being perfected, and he in Europe, it was through his special 
courtesy, flashed over the trans-Atlantic cable, that the manager of the 
Palmer House extended an invitation to entertain all the Confederate and 
Federal guests on the occasion of the dedication of the Confederate 
monument in Chicago; and such hospitable service was rendered, and 
for which fullest thanks are thus publicly extended to him. He is a 
pronounced, determined man, broad in thought and generous by action, 
and withal, one of the most perfect types of Chicago's thorough 
business men; and the following concise sketch embraces the salient 
points of his character. 

BIOGR.VPHIC. 

Potter Palmer's career during his many years' residence in Chicago has been not 
unlike that of the city itself. 

He came of English family, his ancestors being among the first settlers of New 
England. About the beginning of the present century his grandparents moved to New 
York. Potter Palmer was born on a farm on the west bank of the Hudson. Up to the 
time he was i8 years old he attended school, and at that age he entered a country store 
and bank in Durham County. N Y .A few years afierward, having managed to accumu- 
late a little money, he went into business for himself. He soon turned his eyes toward 
the w^est and with a rare foresight saw that Chicago, then little more than a big \'illage, 
was to become a great metropolis. Immigrating to that city he embarked in commerce 
by starting a dry goods store on Lake street forty years ago; he soon built up a business 
which had the largest trade enjoyed by any house, not in Chicago alone, but of the 
entire west; and, after thirteen years of rem.irkable success, disposed of his interests to 
Field & Leiter. 

In 1865, although not yet 40 years old, he retired from active business but continued 
to operate largely in real estate. 'When the fire of 1871 wiped out the business portion 
of the city Mr. Palmer is estimated to have lost $2,000,000. but in a short time he com- 
menced the work by which his name is best known to Chicagoans. 

He is a true, public-spirited citizen and has taken a great interest in the welfare 
of Chicago: is probably as well known as any man in the city, and his successful busi- 
ness record is one of the most remarkable in the west. 





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H. N. HIGINBOTHAM, 

Of rhicayn 

Among the first to give a helping liand toward tlie erection of the 
Confederate monument was Mr. Higinbotham, through a liberal sub- 
scription to the construction fund thereof. 

Besides the material aid thus rendered, he has constantly counten- 
anced and every wav endorsed the harmonizing movement looking to 
the bringing about of friendliest relations between the northern and 
southern sections, and, as a special instance of his efforts in that 
direction, is cited the dove presentation scene in St. Paul's 1 'niversalist 
church, the Sunday before Decoration Day, May 30, 1895, and with the 
view of presenting the facts thereof, the following letter is published: 

Jolin C UnJi>iV(h'i/, Esi]., Chinii^o: 

Mv Dear Sir — Replying to your request for a statement of the meeting between 
the Grand Army Post and the organization of Confederate soldiers that took place in 
St. Paul's Universalist church the Sunday prior to May 30th, iiSg5, I beg to say that 
the occasion was one of very great pleasure to the congregation and the two organiza- 
tions. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the pastor, Rev. A, J. Canfield. requested 
the audience to remain seated until the two organizations had filed out of the church, 
stating as a reason that it would avoid considerable confusion .\t the close of his 
remarks, and being seated immediately adjoining the two organizations, I stated that, 
at the risk of tlie confusion. I wtiuld like very much to ha\e the two bodies remain in 
the church in order that they might meet each other personally and some of the 
members of the congregation as well. My request was granted, and met with the 
hearty ?-pproval of all present. The mingling of the two bodies with the congregation 
and with each other was a memorable occasion and very much enjoyed by all parties. 
Comrade Sanford of the G. A. K. Post, took occasion to present a beautiful white 
dove to the commander of the ex-Confederate Association, Col. Stewart, The presenta- 
tion and the reply were both felicitous, and I am sure the occasion was one long 
to be remembered by the members of both organizations, and augmented the kindly 
feeling that already existed. 

Regretting that I am unable to give you a better statement of the facts, and trusting 
that from this statement you will be able to make such reference to the occasion as will 
be satisfactory to yourself, I am, with respect. 

Verv truly yours, 

H, N, HIGINBOTHAM. 
BIOGRAPHIC. 
Harlow N. Higinbotham was born on a farm near Joliet. Ill , October to, 1S38; 
educated in the common schools of Illinois He enlisted as a private in the Chicago 
Mercantile Battery of Illinois volunteers, U. S. A., August. 1862, but, on account of his 
peculiar fitness, was almost immediately transferred to the quartermaster's department, 
and served his entire enlistment as chief clerk to the ranking quartermaster in different 
divisions of the army, where his expert services were most in demand; and was mustered 
out of the army in December, 1864. Returning to Chicago he engaged in commerce, and 
for thirty-five years has been connected with the mercantile establishment of Marshall 
Field & Co. and its predecessors. A director and president of the World's Columbian 
exposition. 





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Assistance in the i;eneral movement was rendered by many, and 
anion,!; the liberal and patriotic hearts that beat responsive to the call 
was that of Mr. Gase, who ever gave encouragement and by his 
aliility. tact and sound judgment materially aided in the successful 
completion of the author's arduous task, self imposed. The prominent 
features of his character are encompassed within the biographic notes 
appended, and are no less true than the perfect likeness to the man that 
the engraved art work on the foregoing page portrays. 



moGRAPHlC. 

Lyman Judson Gage was born in the village of De Ruyter, N. Y., June 2S. 1.S36. 
Received early education through four years' tuition in an academy and, at 15 years 
of age, obtained a clerkship in the post-office at Rome, N Y., and soon after was 
detailed as mail route agent on the Rome and Watertown railroad. When 18 years old 
he became a junior clerk in a bank, on a very limited salary, and, through eighteen 
months' close attention to various routine duties, obtained an insight into the banking 
business. 

He immigrated west and arrived in Chicago, October 3, 1855, 19 years old. without 
friends or means. He obtained a clerkship in the lumber business with varied duties 
of keeping books and handling lumber, which position he retained three years and 
finally, in August, 1858, became bookkeeper in the Merchants' Savings Loan and Trust 
Company; the next year he was advanced to the position of cashier, which place he 
filled nearly seven years and obtained great financial experience He was invited to and 
accepted the cashiership of the First National Bank in 1867; and. in May, iSSj, was 
made its vice-president and practically directed the policy and managed the bank He 
was elected president of the bank in January, iSoi, which position he still holds, 
devoting his time and energies to the active management of the bank with which he has 
been connected for more than a quart^'r of a century The great banking ability he has 
displayed, gives him first rank as an eminent financier; and was fully recognized by the 
profession, through his election as president of th:? American Bankers' .Association in 
1882 and re-election for two successive terms He is thoroughly imbued with the 
interests of Chicago and is always active in the city s advancement. .As first president 
of the World's Columbian exposition he infused great vitality in that magnificent enter- 
prise, and was forced to relinquish th.- presidency in consequence of increasing brmk 
duties, but remained a director on its lioard to the successful close and was the main 
organizing and stimulating power that opened the purses and treasuries of Chicago. 

.As president of the Commercial club and director and treasurer of the Art Institute, 
etc., he has maintained his high standing, and is both popular and influential in the 
widest scope, from the top to bottom of the great city's vast population, being regarded 
as a broad, liberal, conscientiously just man. elevated and urbane 





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CHAS. B. FAKWELL, 

(Jl Cliicaso, 

One of the \vi_'ll-kno\vn men of Chicai;o, who beheves in the ahsohite 
renniting of tlie sections to the formation of a perfect!)- harmonized 
Nation, in conversation with the author, in substance said: "If I could 
have my way, I would destroy all monuments commemorating inter- 
necine strife and entirely obliterate every evidence of the fact that there 
had been a civil, sectional war in the country, that the descendants of 
both northerner and southerner might as far as possible forget that the 
blood of their forefathers had e\er been spilled in fratricidal battles." 
And in response to a letter requesting a written communication corrob- 
orating his verbal statement, made prior to the dedicatory services here- 
inbefore described, he lias written the following: 

John C. Viidaw.vd, Esq.. Cliu.i:;,i: 

De.\r Sir — I have yours in which you ask me to write my views, which I expressed 
to you on a former occasion, in rej^ard to tlie l.ale civil war. 

In a word, I think that the evidences of that war and its recollections on both sides 
should be put far behind us and as s|ieeilily forgotten as possible 

I might add to this, but what 1 think is all included in the above sentence 

Yours veiy truly, C. B, FAKWELL. 

In his expression of good feeling toward the south, he goes some- 
what further than many of his associates, and evinces a broadness of 
character that woidd so bury the unpleasant past as to combine all 
elements within a swelling tide of completest union, without marks or 
invidious distinctions of any character, about which to discuss in 
unprofitable debate. 

Such is the man! See on the preceding page the broai.l and bemvolent 
features of his Welisterian face, a 
follows: 

moGR.XPHIC 



read the outline of his life as 



Charles B. Farwell was born in Steuben count\. N. Y. July i, 182J. Received 
early education at Elmira .-\cademy. New York Immigrated to Illinois when 15 years 
old and moved to Chicago in 1S44, County clerk of Cook county from 1S53-61. Elected 
to Congress in 1870. Re-elected to Congress in 1S72, '74 and '80, in all four terms, and 
declined further election, h-lected United States senator January 19, 18S7, to fill 
vacancy caused by death of Senator Logan. 

Engaged in wholesale mercantile business in Chicago sinci:' Januarv, 1.S65. 







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WASHINCrrON HESING, 

i 'nstniasi(.T of Chicaf^o. 

Among the gentlemen of Chicago wlio gave countenance to the move- 
ment looking to the dedication of the monument erected over the Con- 
federate soldiers buried in Oakwoods cemetery, and who subsei]uently 
gave assistance and aitl thereto, was Mr. Hesing, and because of his 
being the most prominent government official of the city, the support 
thus early rendered was of great value. 

He has ever been active in everything pertaining to harmonizing 
the formerly opposing elements of the country, and with the broad ideas 
that he has always advanced for the betterment of all sections 
of the Nation, much good has been done toward reuniting the people. 

In consequence of his long editorial and managing charge of the 
S/aa/s Zcitiiiig, and later as the government ofticial in charge of the city's 
mails, he is one of the most prominent, best known and influential jier- 
sonages of Chicago. The sincerest thanks are hereby extended to him 
for his acts in the premises; and believing that a sketch will be interest- 
ing, attention is invited to the following: 



BIOGRAPHIC. 

Washington Hesing was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 14. 1845. and his parents 
moved to Chicago in 1S54. Receiveil early education at Kinzie school. Chicago: then 
•went to Europe and attended school at Osnabrueck, Hanover; in 18111 he attended the 
old University of Chicago, thence he went to St Mary's of the Lake, where he studied 
two years and entering Yale University in iSijii. graduated with honors in 1S70 and 
returned to Chicago. Attended lectures two years at Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany, 
on international law, political economy, history, literature and general subjects pertain- 
ing to journalism. Became a member of the editorial staff of the Slants Zciluiig, Chi- 
cago, in 1S71, and by ability and journalistic capacity arose to the position of managing 
editor, which he still holds. 

In 1S71 he became a member of the board of education, rearranged and established 
the method of German studies in all the schools of Chicago. 

President of the county board of education in iS.So; postmaster of Chicago 1894 — . 

Among the many other stanch advocates of the movement and 
liberal contributors to the monument fund are Messrs. Cyrus H. McCor- 
mick, who started early a subscription paper with around donation, which 
was supplemented by donations from C. F. Gtmther, G. H. Wheeler for 
the Chicago City railway, W. A. Alexander and many others, the roster 
thereof with a statement of the amounts of their respective contribtitions 
IS given in full detail in the account of receipts and disbursements pub- 
lished in the addendum, and the fidlest meed of thanks is extended to 
all. for such material aid and other appreciated services. 




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COMPLIMKNTARV TRANSPORTATION 

OH 

GUESTS FROM ALL I'AKTS ()!• THK COUNTRV. GUN CARRLVGES ANH 

MANY CARLOADS OF FLOWERS FROM 

THE SOUTH 

\'ALUABLE ASSISTANCE RENDERED. 

In oriler to dedicate the ir.oniiniL-nt to the Confederate di-'ad at Chi- 
cago with national ctlal. it was reijuisite to so formulate pL'ins as to 
insure the attendance upon the occasion of renowned southern and 
northern generals and other distinguished personages: and to do that 
successfully, it was necessary to obtain assistance from long lines of 
transportation, including special car privileges, and complimentary hotel 
service in the great citv wherein the memorial shaft stood erecteti. 
Such needs seemed to have been realized h\ many individuals and 
corporations having power to render most appreciative services, of which 
special mention is hereinafter consecutively made. 

The first material courtes\' was received from the Cleveland. Cincin- 
nati, Chicago lV- St. Louis ("Big Four") railway, through tin.' proper 
■ofiicers under instructions from its president: 

M. E. INGALLS, 

Of ("incinnati 

In the use of freight trains to transport gun carriages for the cannon 
comprising the held battery appropriated b\' the government, and by a 
further proffer to haul refrigerator cars of tiowers donated by the south, 
with wliich to ornament tile burial grounds. Such services were 
rendered and afterward supi)lemented by President Ingalls' order to 
transport the special cars, containing the dedicatory party between 
the Cities of Chicago and Cincinnati, and, in fact, to furnish every 
character of courtesy to the guests from the various sections of the 
country. How the complimentary service was performed was assured by 
the magnificent appointments of the line e.xtending the favor: which, 
through its safety, comfort and speed, wheeled the distinguished party 
between two of its terminal cities, during a night of great pleasure, and 
the impressions made by the many hospitable receptions were such, that 
the waters of Lake Michigan and the beautiful Ohio river, the fertile 
plains of Illinois and pictures<iue hills of Kentucky all ornamented the 
recollection of a most enjoyable excursion. And, for which, grateful 
thanks are heartil}- tendered. 





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239 

The broadness of the man, through whose favor the foregoing 
referred to courtesies became possible, is axiomatic; and in acknowl- 
edgment thereof it is fitting to present the following outline sketch of 

his life: 

HIOG K A r II 1 C 

Melville Ezra Ingalls wis born in Harrison. Me, September G, 1S42. The son 
of a farmer, he attended the district school in the winter and labored on the farm ihirinR 
other seasons At the age of id he passed an examination .md became a school 
teacher. He wascountj- school master tor six years and devoted his spare time to study 
and in 18(10 he graduated with honors from Bridgton academy and entered Bowdoin 
college. Maine. He entered Harvard Law School in 1S62 and began the practice of law 
in 1S64 at Gray. Me.; whence he moved to Boston. Mass.. continued professional 
practice and entering politics, was elected state senator in 1S67 Declining renomination 
he became a corporation counsel, ami in 1871 was appointed recei\er of the Indian- 
apolis. Cincinnati tV La Fayette railroad, and mo\ing to Cincinnati. Ohio, took charge of 
the affairs of that company. He conducted its business so successfullv, that upon its 
reorganization as the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & St Louis raihva\" in iSSo he became 
its president and remained in such capacity until 1SS9; when, upon the consolidation of 
the road wdth the Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati & Indianapolis and Indianapolis & St. 
Louis railways, he was elected president of the three companies united in the Cleve- 
land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railway, commonly known as the "ISig Four 
Route." which position he still holds From 1S81 to 1883 he was president of the Ken- 
tucky Central railroad, and since iSS.S he h.is served as president of the Chesape.ike iV 
Ohio railroad. The excellent equipment of these railways, their safety, and the popu- 
larity of the routes, reflect great credit upon his controlling management, -tnd he 
justly stands the peer of any railroad magnate throughout the country 

He was president of the Cincinnati exposition in i88o, and gives material assistance 
and great encouragement to the city's famous musical organizations. He maintains seven 
or eight flourishing branches of the Railroad Young Men's Christian .Association at 
principal points on the railroads he controls. 

He is a man of liberal and advanced ideas and devoted to the interests of his 
adopted cit\ . was one of the founders and is president of the Cincinnati .\rt Museum 
and also of the Technical School; is a marked public speaker and considerate, careful, 
determined and courteous in all things. 

The largest party of ex-Confederates that attendeci tiie monument 
dedication came from the Capital Cit\- of Washington; and that such a 
body of about forty people might be properly conveyed to the great 
northwestern metropolis and then returned to the District of Columbia, 
was a difficult problem to solve, one not susceptible of solution except by 
the aid of a great trunk line railway; and it was solved throu,i;h the 
favor of the third vice-president of the Baltimore c% Ohio railroad: 



CHAS. K. LORD, 

Of Baltimore. 

Who, with characteristic liberality, carrying out the generous policy 
ever followed by the grand old transportation company, of which he is 




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241 

offict-r, proffered such assistance as cnabktl tlie author lo extenil the 
courtesies of that Hue to the distiai,Mushed part\' havint; with it the 
soUlier-statesuiau orator of the dedicator)' occasion; and the hidies and 
gentlemen who tihed the special palace car have reason to long remember 
the pleasures of the trip, encompassing as it does the exquisite scener\ 
of the far-famed Alleghau)' monntams, the rich fields and beautiful land- 
scapes between the tidewaters of the historic Potomac river and the 
turbid waves of Lake Michigan: and from the -'(hieen City," on the 
Kentucky border of (Jhio back to the handsomest Capital Cit\- of all the 
nations on earth. The -'royal blue train," which numberetl among its 
elegant sleeping cars the one so richly freighted, rolled along its beautiful 
course to the deli,L;ht of the southern guests who were being so ctmi. 
fortably transported: and such were the enjoyable accommodations of 
the train and road that the party arrived in Chicago, after the extensive 
rail ride in extremel\- warm weather, but little fatigued or ilistressed 
because of the heat and long travel. 

The magnitude of this courtes\' carries with it the fullest ajiprecia- 
tion from the participants, for which sincerest thanks are hereby extended, 
and, in recognition of the attributes of the man, a concise sketch is pub- 
lished as follows: 

HIOCK AI'HIC 

Charles King Lord was born at Hoosac Falls, N. Y., May 14, 1S48. Entered rail- 
road service October i, 1^65. and has since been consecutively, to October, 1871, ;i clerk 
in the general ticket oilic- of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & La Fayette raihn.ul: 
October, 1S71, to ,\pril 1. 1S73, general ticket agent same road: April i, iSyj, to October 
I, 1S74, assistant general pnssenger agent, and October, 1S74, to December i, 1S79, 
general passenger agent of the St T-ouis. Kansas City & Northern railroad; December 
I. 1879, to May I, 1880, general ticket agent of the Wabrsh, St Louis cV ['acilic railw.iy; 
May, 1S80, to March. iSSS. general passenger agent of the Baltimore A Ohio railroad: 
March. 1S8S, to date, third vice-president same roul 

Of the railroads that gave very material assistance was the Illinois 
Central, President Fish and other officers giving every aid in their power, 
for which favor and service the sincerest thanks are expressed; but the 
active manager and second vice-presiilent of the company; 



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Was the most instrunnntal in the movement, with early courtesy prof- 
ferring the use of its trains for the conveyance of guests from the gulf 
states, the transportation of refrigerator cars of flowers and the move- 
ment of the military to and from the cemetery on the dedicatory occasion 
and, conseijuently. special thanks are hereby extended to that ollicer. 





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How liberally and well the obligation was performed under his direc- 
tion is now a matter of record, of which the great roadway may well 
be proud, for the main service in conveying so many thousands of people 
so comfortably in such a short space of time is work that can be 
successfully accomplished by Imt few railways in the country. As 
illustrative of the life of this active railroad man, see the following I 

sketch: 

BIOGK AI'HIC, 

James Thomas Harahan was born in Lowell, Mass., in September. 1843, .\t tlie 
outbreak of the war he enlisted as a United States volunteer and served in First regi- 
ment Massachusetts infantry (now known as the "Old F'irst"), Army of the Potomac, 
until the battle of Williamsburg and. after that, in a New York battery He was a 
private soldier and took part in all the battles in which the Army of the Potomac was 
engaged from "Bull Kun" to "Spottsylvania," serving from 1861 to summer of 1S64. 
inclusive. Entered railway service fall of 1864, as switchman at Alexandria, Va , sub- 
sequently employed in shops of Orange & Alexandria railroad, same place, six months; 
afterward six months engine dispatcher and engineer same road and place; fall of 1865 
to summer of 1866, yardmaster Nashville & Decatur railroad, Nashville, Tenn.; 
1866 and 1867. conductor construction train same road; 186S and i86g, conductor Clarks- 
ville division Louisville & Nashville railroad; part of 1S119 and 1870. yardmaster Louis- 
ville, Cincinnati & Lexington railroad one year, also for a time conductor passenger 
train same road; 1S70 to August, 1872, in charge Shelby railroad: August, 1S7J. to 1879. 
roadmaster Nashville & Decatur railroad; 1879 to 1881, superintendent Memphis line, 
Louisville & Nashville railroad; 1881 to December, 18S3, superintendent New Orleans 
division, same road; December, 1883, to July i, 1884, general superintendent Louisville & 
Nashville railroad south of Decatur; July i, 1884, to January i, 18S5. general manager 
entire line, same road; January i, 1885, to April i, 1885, general superintendent Pitts- 
burg division Baltimore & Ohio railroad; April 1, 1885, to October, 1885, assistant general 
manager Louisville X Nashville railroad; October, 1885, to October, 1888, general 
manager, same road; October, 18S8, to November i, 1890, successively as assistant general 
manager Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway, general manager Chesapeake & 
Ohio railway and general manager Louisville, New Orleans & Texas railway. November 
I. 1890, to date, second vice-president Illinois Central railroad. 

Attended International Railway Congress held in London, England, in June, 1895. 
as a delegate from the American Railway Association; is an admirable railroad man and, 
as the practical general manager of the Illinois Central railroad, has made the greatest 
success of his life — as thoroughly evidenced by the fine condition of that property under 
his active management 

He is a stanch determined man. a fast friend and true to e\'ery put pose. 



GEOI^GE M. PULLMAN, 

of Chicago. 

The splendid triutnph of Mr. I'lillman in the construction ut the 
palace sleeping car and the development of the extensive sleeping car 
systetn which bears his name, has given great comfort and convenience 



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244 

to the tra\eling public throughout the continent. While this fact evi- 
dences great inventive, mechanical and business ability, it does not hilly 
show the character of the man. He is a man oi elevated sentiments in 
all things; ever ready and willing to assist legitimate enterprise and 
e.xtreinely generous in individual and collective charities. He is a 
national patriot of pronounced stamp, but so liberally broad by nature 
that he can view and consider the actions of opposing elements from 
tlieir standpoints. It was his courteous act, in recognition of braver)' 
and fortitude, wliich supjilied the sleeping car accommodations to Con- 
federate generals and other personages, who as guests, attended the 
dedication of the Confederate monument in Chicago. 



IJIoGR.^PHIC 

George Mortimer Pullman \v;is horn in Chautauqu.i county, N V.. March 3, 1831 
He received an ordinary country school education, and at the age of 14 was employed 
in a country store, and three years later he went to Albion, N. Y., where he entered 
into the cabinet ni.iking business with an elder brother. He S'aried this line of work 
during the next ten vears b\' tuidertaking contracts of \'arious sorts, among them the 
moving of warehouses and other buildings along the line of the Erie canal, which at that 
time was being widened b)- th:' state 

In 1859 he came to Chicago and undertook and accomplished what w;is then a 
novel work, the raising of entire blocks of Ijrick and stone buildings. All this experi- 
ence gave him a wide field of observation, stimulated his inventive powers, and developed 
natural executive qualities of a high order. Between 1859 and 1S62 he remodeled 
several passenger coaches intti sleeping cars, which contained many new devices. These 
cars ran on the Chicago \- .\lton and Galena and Chicago Union railroads. From these 
experiments he worked out d -tailed plans, with additional improvements, which he set 
about [lulling into execution on a thorough and comprehensive basis. The result of 
many months of hard and loyal labor was the car "Pioneer," which was completed in 
1865. and took its place at once as the most perfect car that had been produced up to 
that time; and there has nev..^r been a time since, when the latest Pullman cars were 
not the highest achievement in vehicles for passenger transportation. 

It was generally thought that their largely increased cost would preclude their ever 
coming into general use; but Mr Pullman realized that the .American people desired the 
best of everything, and the outcome of the enterprise demonstrated the accuracy of his 
judgment 

This principle has never been departed from liy him and is the ruling maxim of the 
great company of which he is the founder and chief executive. 

From modest beginnings in the early sixties the Pullman Company has developed into 
one of the largest and most widespread industries in the world. It has a paiil up capital 
of Sj'i. 000,000- It never "pas-;es a dividend," and is conducted on such strict business 
principles that its stock is recognized as a safe investment for the funds of educational 
and charitalile institutions, and of women and of trust estates, indeed, more than one- 
half of its stockholders belong to these classes, and of this halt more than three-fourths 
are women 

F(U- manv years the shops of the company were located in difterent cities, but the 
m inuf.icluring business of the company developed to such an extent that in 1879 Mr. 




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T'ullmEiu decided to build a plant on a far gri-ater scale than then existed, and to concen- 
trate the principal part of the mannfacturin,s; business To carry out this plan, he pur- 
chased a large tract of land near Chicago, bordering on Lake Calumet, and about fnu) - 
teen miles south of the center of the city. Here extensive works were construcliri and 
fitted with the latest and best machinery and appliances, and with a producing capacity 
of 300 sleeping cars, 02^ passenger cars, i2,(.)00 freight cars and i.ooo street cars jier 
year. When the works are running to their full capacity about 5,501) men are employeil; 
at present 4.900 are on the rolls 

Pullman has been called a "model town," and the term is sureh- no! misapplied In 
carrying out the general plan every care has been taken to make the sanitary conditions 
perfect by a water supply and an extensi\ e and scientific system of sewerage; the streets are 
p.aved and well lighted and there are a number of parks and open places properly orna- 
mented with trees, shrubbery and fiowers, all of which are kept in perfect repair and 
cleanliness by the company at its own expense There are 1.750 houses and tenements 
built upon the most modern plan, with all conveniences. These are rented at moderate 
and reasonable rates and are of sizes to suit the con\'enience and means of all classes. 
There are some large apartrtient buildings in which flats, ranging from two to h\e rtioms. 
are rented, the cheapest of these apartments, consisting of two rooms, are let for S* 50 
per month. There are a number of fine churches of all denominations, a pretty theater, 
one of the most attractive in the country, seating Soo people; a savings bank, splendid 
public schools, with nearly one thousand pupils; markets and stores of all kinds. ci)n- 
ducted by privatr parties; a fine public library, lake water, gas, electric lights, fire pro- 
tection and an excellent drainage system, which insures the mo5t healthful conditions 

[The following comment from a southern journal, the Atlanta d'nx/i- 
tiiti(>n. in its issue of December 22, iSg5, may be appropriately quoted 
in tliis connection. ] 

"Such wonderful development as all this indicates can better be imdcrstood bv 
knowing something of the personalit)' of the man who first conceived the idea, and who. 
bv skill, patience, close attention to details, untiring industry and a rugged character, 
from humble beginnings, has achieved one of the marvelous successes of the century 
All these characteristics and many others become apparent from a close study of Mr 
Pullman's strongly marked face Slow to adopt a policy, he is slower yet in abandoning 
it Progressive, almost to a fault, he is conservative in his methods and never changes 
his policv except after the most mature tleliberation 

"It is only by knowing something of the characteristics of this remark.ible m;ui 
that we can understand how, ifuring the luemiuable strike at Pullman in iSo.j. whiih 
involved the greater portion of all the r;iilroads in the country, he maintained his posi- 
tion and settled the broad principle thai the owners of a business are the men to shape 
its policy, and not professional agitators, whose onh real labor consists in fomenting 
trouble. Had a weaker course been pnrsiu-d by the compan\' many cjuestions th;it .ire 
now settled forever, most important among which is the supremacy of n.itional l.iw 
would have still remained subject to the assaults of self-created and irresponsilile 
leaders The company, which had made sacrifices in order to keep its shops running at 
a time when industry in general was paraly/ed, found itself confronted with a demanil 
to deal with outside parties who hail no relation toils Ijusiness and very pmiierly refused 
to allow outside interference with its affairs The immediate sequence was one ot the 
greatest conflicts between the forces of disorder and the strong arm of the law that has 
occurred during recent years. The result is history. The highest courts of the country 
ha\e passed upon the supremacy of the law and its guardianship of property rights, and 





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lasting benefits have been acliieved, not alone for the town of Pullman, with its hive ot 
busy and contented workers, but for the country at large, workingmen as well as 
employers." 

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In addition tu the railroads specially mentioned because of the 
magnitude of the service they rendered, other lines furnisln-d transporta- 
tion in advantageous degrees owing to their locations and the possibili- 
ties of using their systems successfully, viz: 

The "Cincinnati Southern railway" rendered valuabk- assistance in 
the transportation of gun carriages, refrigerator cars of llowers and in 
passenger courtesies. 

The "Chicago & Eastern Illinois," -T^ouisville & Nash\ille." "Nash- 
ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis" and "Western & Atlantic" railroads, 
the "Southern Railway" and the "Central Railroad of Georgia," all 
contributed toward the transportation of the cars of flowers and in 
passenger favors. 

"The Louisville, New Albany \' Chicago;" "Atlanta i.S; West Point" and 
"Missouri, Kansas & Te.xas" railroads extended every favor in their power 
and supplied complimentary transportation whenever it was needed. 

The "Chicago cV Northwestern" railway proffered to transport troops 
from Fort Sheridan, but the service was not required; however, the 
courtesy remained and was appreciated the same as if it had been 
rendered. 

The "Adams Express Company" transported the monumental tablet 
and many packages free, and was otherwise very attentive so as to pre- 
vent the loss of flowers through delays, etc. 

To each and every one of them, the fullest meed of thanks is hereby 
publicly expressed. 

THE SOUTHERN GRANITE COMPANY. 



In the movement toward erecting the monument, \ery great assist- 
ance was received early from the Southern Granite Company, because of 
the friendly acquaintance of the author with the officers thereof and the 
proximity of its headquarters to his residence city. The company was 
organized in 1KS6 in Cincinnati, with George Moerlein, one of the 
wealthiest and most generous business men of that city as president, 
and J. A. Eberhardt. general manager; consequently, it was natural that 
it should make a close figure on the construction of the work, which was 




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(lone in compLtitiuu tln-refor, and the largest donation to tilt- monument 
fund was from the said company. 

President iMoerlein died in August, iSgi, and the company was reor- 
ganized with his widow, Mrs. Caroline Moerlein, as president and Maj. 
J. A. Eberhardt. vice-president and general manager; and this new 
organization was also most liberal in accepting a large payment, in the 
face value of drafts on sundry subscribers to the monument fund, without 
recourse on the payer. For the original most liberal donation and the 
after material assistance, through accepting uncollected subscriptions, 
the sincerest thanks are tendered. 



MRS. CAROLINE MOERLEIN, 

( )f ('incinnati 

B10GR.\PHIC 

Caroline Werner was Viorn in (Cincinnati, ()hiri. Julv 21. iSho, recei\efl a good 
education and married George Moerlein the \vealth_v brewer. She is a most public 
spirited and charitable woman, possessing great executive and business ability and is 
thoroughly patriotic to her native city. She was appointed by Gov. McKinley one of 
the lady commissioners from Ohio to the Atlanta exposition in 1S95. The stale having 
made no appropriation for expenses, her co-appointees declined to serve; and Mrs. 
Moerlein alone, at private cost of several thousand dollars, fitted up a room in the 
Women's building which she named "the Cincinnati room. " collected art works produced 
only by women of Cincinnati, such as paintings, statuary, pottery, etchings, china 
paintings, needlework, etc , etc The room was honored by ten medals and diplomas; 
and Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, while at the .Atlanta exposition pronounced it the 
most artistic and finest room of the entire exposition. She is amiable, resolute and gen- 
erous in character; and the handsome engraving on page 246 fitly represents the 
lovely woman. 



MAJ. J. A. EBERHARDT, 

Of Cincinnati. 



BIOGK.\PHIC. 

John .Adolph Eberhardt was born November 8, 1S44, in Germany Came to 
America with parents when X years old and settled in New Vork City. Received a 
college education. Enlisted in the Federal army at 17 years of age and serving with the 
Union army in Virginia, was successively promoted until March, 1S65, when he was 
brevetted major, "for long and faithful service and gallant conduct in the field." .After 
the war he settled in Cincinnati and is one of the "Queen City's" most active and stanch 
business men. 



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THE EX-CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO. 
CAMP No. S, U. C. \". 

(By an OHic-er of the Camp 1 

This association was organized, it might be said, at the grave of that 
great and illustrious commander, U. S. Grant, for the first meeting 
was held for the purpose of taking part in the funeral ceremonies held 
in Chicago, while Gen. Grant was being laid to rest in the far east, 
August 8, 1885. 

About fift}' e,\-Confederates assembled and marched in the funeral 
procession, in a driving rain, not one man falling out of line. After the 
march was over, it was suggested that an association be formed for 
social intercourse, and for the further purpose of caring for the graves 
of their old comrades, 6,000 of whom lay beneath the sod at Oak woods 
cemetery, and to ultimatelv erect a monument over their dust, and dedi- 
cate it to their memory. With this purpose always in view, they secured 
permission from the secretary of war to erect the monument (the lot 
where their comrades are buried belonging to the government). 

Then came the hard part, the raising of the funds with which to 
build it. After awhile they succeeded in getting Gen. John B. Gordon 
to come to Chicago and deliver a lecture, the proceeds of which to be 
applied to that purpose. From this lecture the munificent sum of $1,500 
(including interest) was realized, owing to the e.\ertions made by the 
members of the association in selling tickets for it. 

After this, the association was merged into a camp ot United Con- 
federate Veterans and is now known as Chicago Camp No. 8, U. C. \'. 

A short time after the camp was formed, it was ordered by the gen- 
eral commanding the U. C. V. Association to recommend a comrade tu 
be appointed major-general, who was to be in command of tlie northern 
division. In accordance with this order. Gen. John C. Underwood was 
selected; and with the $1,500 previously raised by and in the hands of 
the camp as a nucleus. Gen. Underwood, assisted by several members 
of the camp, raised the balance of the funds necessary to erect the 
monument, whicli was dedicated May 30, 1895. 

And so at last, after a long struggle, The e.x-Confederate Association 
of Chicago saw the noble purpose for which it was organized accom- 
plished, and the liope which it loudly cherished and which has held it 
together for so many long years fully realized. For to-day stands above 
the sacred dust of comrades, dedicated to their memory, one of the most 
magnificent monuments in our land. 



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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. 

War Department, 1 

Quartermaster General's Office, - 

Washington, D. C , August 31, 1887. \ 
Mr. M. R. Sdillni, C/,!,-,,-v, 111. : 

Sir — Referring to your communication o£ the 17th instant, requesting permission 
on behalf of The ex-Confederate Association at Chicago, 111 . to erect a memorial to 
the Confederate dead, buried in the government lot in Oakvvoods cemetery, near that 
city, I am directed by the quartermaster-general to inform you that the honorable 
secretary of war has approved the request, under such regulations or instructions as 
the quartermaster-general may deem proper- 

The papers have been referred to Col. J. D. Bingham, assistant quartermaster- 
general, U. S. army, chief quartermaster. Division of the Missouri. Chicago, 111 . who 
will select the site if thought advisable Very respectfully, 

Vour obedient servant, 
(Signed) J. G. CHANDLER. 
Dc'pulv QuarttyiunsUr-General, U. S. Anitv. 



Headquarters Division of the Missouri. 1 

Office of the Chief Quartermaster, - 

Chicago, III,. September 5. 1SS7. ) 

Mr. M. A' Siiilliii, Ayus/ivU Scureliirw e.\-Co>!federali! Assi'cialion of Chicago: 

Sir — Vour letter of the 17th ultimo, addressed to Maj. S. A. Jones. Washington 
D C in relation to a monument for the Confederate dead buried at Oakwoods. near this 
city, has been referred to me 

The honorable secretary of war has granted permission to erect the memorial, as 
requested, under such instructions as the quartermaster-general may deem proper, 

I shall be glad to see you at Room No. 403, Pullman Building, at 11 ;oo o'clock a, m. 
on any day that may be convenient to you, in order to arrange for the designation of a 
proper site for the monument. Very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant. 
(Signed) J D BINGHAM, 
Assistant Quarterinaster-Geurral, U. S. Army, Chief Qiiarlcrinaster. 



The E,\ -Confederate Association of Chicago. 

"Camp No. S. United Confederate Veterans." 
Chicago. March 26. 1S92. 
Statement: 

Net proceeds. Gen. John B. Gordon's lecture for benefit of monu- 
ment to be erected to the memory of prisoners of war who died 

at Camp Douglas Si. 414. 61 

Additional subscriptions 25.00 

Interest on above now on deposit in Illinois Trust and Savings Bank 49-79 

Total amount to credit of ex-Confederate Ass'n monument fund $1,480 40 

(Signed! S. J. SULLIVAN. 

Trrasiirer 

This amount was turned over to Gen. John C. I'nderwood, and is part 
of the Si, 587. 9 1 credited to receipts in his detailed account on page 25S. 



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POWERS AND AUTHORITY. 

Thk Ex-Confedekate Association ok Chicago, ) 

"Camp No S, United Confederate Veterans," !- 

Chicago, June 26, iSgi. 1 

NesoheJ, That Comrade John C Underwood be appointed a committee of one, with 
power to take any necessary action, to raise funds for the purpose of building a monu- 
ment over the 5. 000 Confederate dead in Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago 

(Signed) JNO W WillTK, 
.\ttest: Pi('suL-iti. 

(Signed) R I,EE FR,\NCE, 

St-irt'tai'v. 




Headquarters i 

United Confederate Veterans, - 
New Orleans, La., November 21, iSqi 1 

C;eneral Orders No. 22. 

I. In order to properlv and faithfully carry out the "benevolent and historical ' 
objects of this organization, as has been requested, the general commanding deems it 
necessary to form two divisions in the northern states, one east and one west of the line 
of the Alleghanies, each to be officered by a major-general, who will be appointed by 
him upon the recommendation of the Confederate Veteran camps in Chicago, 111 , and 
in New York City, to be made not later than December 15. iSgi 

II It will be the duty of these major-generals, when appointed, to organize camps 
and take steps to care for and assist the disabled, indigent, helpless and distressed 
ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors in their respective departments, and to protect their 
widows and orphans; also to have charge of the Confederate dead buried at Gettysburg, 
Fort Warren, Camps Morton, Chase, Douglas, Oakwoods cemetery at Chicago, Johnson's 
island, Cairo and all other points; to care for and have the graves of the known and 
unknown dead annually decorated, to prespr\e and protect the headstones; also to obtain 
and compile the names and commands of all the Confederate dead buried at every point 
in the north, which lists this association will publish through the medium of its canip^ 
all over the south, so as to give relatives and friends correct information of the list 
resting places of these southern heroes, their and our beloved dead, thus rescuing their 
names from oblivion and handing them down in history. 

In this philanthropic and holy work the general commanding and these head- 
quarters will render all possible aid 

By order of J B GORDON, 

(Jciu-ra! CeiiiiihiiiJiii;^. 
(Signed) GEO MOORMAN, 

A,//ii/inil-lU-ihral and Cliiif of Staff . 



Headquarters 1 

United Confederate Veterans, J- 
New Orle\ns, La,, December 19, iSqi. ) 

General Orders No. 21'!. 

I. The general commanding heartily approves the recommendation of The ex-Con- 
federate Association, Chicago Camp No, 8, and John C Underwood of Chicago, is hereby 
appointed major-general of the division in the northern states west of the line of the 
.Mleghanies, to date from December 7, 1S91. 



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11. Maj tJen. John C, Underwood will carry out the provisions of general orders 
No. 22. from these headquarters, and his attention is especially directed to the "benevo- 
lent and historical" features of it. ■* * * * * * 
, By order of J B. GORDON, 

(Signed) GEO. MOORMAN, 

AJjulai!t-G,m-ral and Chief ,yf St.iff 



he.'idqu.'irters united confederate veterans. 1 

Adjutant-General's Office, - 

New Orleans, La . Aplril ij, 1X92. ) 

Mn/. '(it'll Jo/in C. CmUr'vood, Coitnuamiin^ Division of the Morthnh'st , Unitcui Con - 
federate Veterans, Chicago, III. : 
General — You are hereby directed to proceed to. and assume command of. the 
Division East of the AUeghanies which includes Maryland, Delaware and the District of 
Columbia; also to the States of Kentucky and West Virginia, assigned to your command 
temporarily by order of Lieut-Gen. E, Kirby Smith, all of which you will take charge 
of temporarily for the purpose of organizing camps and for monumental work. 

Bv order of GEN. J, B. GORDON 
(Signedl GEO. MOORMAN, 

Adjittant-Geneial and Chief of Staff. 



Ex-Confederate Association of Chicago, ( 
Camp No, 8, U. C. V. f 

On motion of Comrade Forester, duly seconded, it was 

Resolved, That this camp appro\'e of all steps taken by Gen John C. Underwood, 
and that he has full liberty and power to do all that he may think proper in connection 
with raising funds for and in building monument over our dead in Oakwoods cemetery. 

Resolved. That the treasurer of Camp No. 8 is hereby instructed to turn over to 
Gen. John C Underwood, whenever he desires him to do so, all funds now held by him. 
Carried unanimously. 
Attest; (Signed) R LEE FRANCE, 

August (), 1892. Seerelaiy. 

headyuarters united confederate veterans. 1 

Adjutant-General's Office, ,- 
New Orleans, La., December 12, 1892 1 

Maj .-Gen. John C. L'n lerioood, Conintanding;, Chicago, III..' 

General — By direction of the general commanding, the Division of the Northwest 
at present commanded by you, with the Division East of the AUeghanies which includes 
the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Delaware, are formed into a provisional depart- 
ment under your command, to which, with consent of Lieut -Gen. E. Kirby Smith, com- 
manding Department East of the Mississippi, the States of Kentucky and West Virginia 
are also temporarily assigned 

Maj. -Gen, Underwood is hereby fully authorized to appoint his staff commensurate 
with his command, and is urged to push the formation of camps monumental and 
benevolent work in the territory named in this order. 

By command of GEN. J. B. GORDON, 

Coi/imanilm^ C C. V. 
(Signed) GEO, MOORMAN, 

Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff. 



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United Confederate Veterans, 
Tempokakv Office of the Commander-in-Chief, 
Washington, D, C-. February 16, 1S93 

Sl'ECIAL iNSTRrCTlONS. 

I- Maj.-Gen. John C Underwood, commanding the Provisional Department of 
tile North, embracing all the northern states from ocean to ocean and the States of 
Kentucky, West Virginia. Maryland and the District of Columbia, is hereby instructed 
to merge organized bodies of ex-Confederates existing within the limits of his department, 
under the general organization of the United Confederate Veterans, without disturbing 
their rules for local self-government. 

II He will transmit to the adjutant-general the rosters of memberships as they 
are furnished him, together with the applications for memberships by the various 
bodies in the United Confederate Veterans, properly signed by the comniantling officers 
of such bodies, and charter fee of two (2) dollars in each case. 

III. In the formation of new camps in the northern and border southern states he 
will exercise discretion in each particular premise, form, brigades, divisions and appoint 
commanders therefor. 

Offid"/: (Signed) J B. GORDON, 

(Signed) JOS. WHEELER, G,n,ial Connnaiuiing. 

Coinnnsstirv-G<-iural, At ting Aiti-dt-Ciiiitp 



Ex-CONFEDEKATE ASSOCIATION OF CllICAGO, \ 

Camp No S, U. C V. \ 

.\t a meeting held May 20, 1893, Gen. John C. Underwood was authorized to collect 
a fund to be applied to contingent expenses connected with un\'eiling of our monument. 

(Signed) R. LEE FRANCE, 
Chicago, May 22, 1893 Si-irt'/my. (Seal ) 



Gen. John C. Underwood having tieen placed in char.^e in uSiji, 
accepted the autliorit}' to erect a monument, obtained by thu ex-Con- 
federate Association, ratified by orders from the Commander, IT, C. \'., 
had the following pertinent communications witli government officials; 

headyuarters division of the missouri, i 

Office of the Chief Quartermaster, - 
Chicago, III., May g, 1893. ) 

Gt'fi 'John C. i'iitit:r~i'iyot/, C/iicngn, III.: 

Dear Sir — In reply to your verbal inquiry of yesterday, I have the honor to furnish 
you with the following copy of an extract from the instructions of the quartermaster- 
general, dated August 29, 1892, viz.: 

"There is howe\er, no objection to his (Gen. Llnderwood) impro\'ing the lot in 
Oakwoods cemetery as requested, provided that no part of the expense therefor, be made 
a charge against the United States, and that the plans for the repair and improvements 
proposed, be first submitted to, and approved by the chief quartermaster. Department 
of the Missouri, Chicago, 111 , who lias charge of the soldiers' lot in the cemetery named, 
as has been done in similar cases." 

The thinning out of the trees, cleaning off and beautifying the ground in which the 
Confederate dead are buried, and constructing the monument upon the site selected for 
the purpose at the center of the lot, are approved. 

Very respectfully, 

(Signed) J. D. BINGHAM, 
Assistant QtttJi-tt'tnttisttT'CL'iit'rttl, UniieU Stntc-s Arrnv, Chit'f Qiiarteyinastrr . 



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[public NO. 29 ] 

An Act to aiitliori/e the secretary of war to issue four condemned iron guns and projectiles to Ihe 
officer in charge of tlie government lot in Oakwoods cemetery, near Chicago, 111. 

Be il riiaitiu/ fir the Scnale mid House of Keprestittati-'es of ihe Ciiilal Slates of 
Aviei tea ill Congress assembled. That the secretary of war is hereby authorized to issue 
four condemned iron guns and projectiles to the officer in charge of the government lot 
in Oakwoods cemetery, near Chicago, 111., in whicli are buried both Union and Confed- 
erate dead, and that he be authorized to expend them in ornamenting said lot- 
Approved, January 25, 1895, 



Office of the Chief of Ordnance. 1 

United States Army, '- 

Washington, D C . February iS, 1895 ) 

Geii, John C Undenoood, f C I'.. Etc.: 

Sir — I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the iith inst , 
enclosing a copy of the Act of Congress approved January 25. iSgj, authorizing the 
secretary of war to issue four condemned iron guns and projectiles to the officer in 
charge of the Government lot in Oakwood cemetery near Chicago, 111 . in which are 
buried both Union and Confederate dead, and requesting that in selecting the cannon 
therein referred to that four guns having a battle record, and captured from the 
Confederate States be issued, together with a supply of projectiles of like caliber 
sufficient to make four piles, and sufficient twelve-pounder projectiles to make a pile on 
each side of the principal entrance to said burial lot. be furnished under the provisions 
of the above cited act, and, in reply, to inform you that the following have this day 
been ordered issued to Col. M. I. Luddington, quartermaster's department, United 
States army, Chicago, 111., the officer in charge of said burial lot, viz: 
From Frankford Arsenal: 

Four three-inch rifles- 
From Rock Island Arsenal: 

760 three-inch shell, for the construction of four piles, and 72S twelve-pounder 

solid shot, for the construction of two piles, one on each side of the entrance to 

said lot. 

I also enclose duplicate blue prints showing plan and elevation of the several piles 

of projectiles. These drawings will enable you to prepare the stone bases for the piles. 

Respectfully. 
(Signed) D W, FI.AGI.KR, 

Biigadiei -General, Chief of Ordnanre. 



[Letter of February 25, 1895.] 
Gei,_ John C. Cnder-oood, U. C V., Etc. : 

Sir — In reply to yours of the 22d inst., 1 take pleasure in stating that I have to-day 
ordered the 316 eight-inch shell and four ten-inch shot to be shipped to Chicago for you 
from the Allegheny arsenal, Pittsburg, Pa. The returns show no ten-inch solid shot on 
hand, but it is possible as many as four of them may be found. If so, they will be sent. 



If nni, the ten-inch shell will be sent, 1 think liniii mir conversation tliat you can lue 
the hitter bv placing the fuse hole down. 

1 hope to finti time to-morrow- to si'nd yon the information you request in regard to 
the manner in wliich I litted n]-! the Confederate cemetery at Hock Island arsenal. 

KespectfuUy, 
(Signed) D. W FLACLKK. 
Bri i^iiJier-Gi-iit'r.i/, CItirf of (>r,iihin(-r . 




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HEADOlIARrERS DIVISION OF THE MiSSOtlRI, 1 

Office of the Chief Quarthrmastek, 
Chicago, III , May iS, if>95 i 

Gen. Jt'/ii! C. i'nJfrwooJ, Coiiiinn)tdiiig Notllu-rn D,'pi:>tmt»l U. C I'.: 

Dear Sir — Referring to the matter of a tablet which you desire to erect in the 
government lot in Oakwoods cemetery, the quartermaster-general of the army informs 
me that he sees no objection in the enclosed paper, and you are authorized to cause such 
tablet to be placed there. Very respectfully, 

(Signed) M. I. LUDIXGTON. 
Assisliiil/ 1,'tliirli'i >ii:ist,r-Giiu-ni/, Onilcil Slates Aiiny, Cliuf (hiinlc-nii,ist,i . 

Enclosure: 

The Confederate dead here buried in concentric trenches were all pri\ ale soldiers. 

The monument to their memory is of Georgia granite, stands forty feet from the 
ground to top of statuc'and was erected in July, i'^93. with funds mainly subscribed by 
liberal citizens of Chicago and camps of the United Confederate \'eterans. 

The bronze panels of the pedestal "tlie," represent C)n the east f.ice, "The Call 
TO .\rms," on the west face, "A Veteran's Return Home;" and on the south face, 
'■.\ Soldier's Death Dream 

The bronze statue surmounting the battlemented capital of the column is a realistic 
representation of a Confederate infantry soldier after the surrender The face expresses 
sorrow for the thousands of prison dead interred beneath 

The cannon, shot and shell ornamenting this government lot. in which lioth Union 
and Confederate dead are buried, were furnished by the war department under 
authorit) of an Act of Congress approved [.miiar) 25, 1895. 



[Letter of .August 5, 1893,1 
Gen. John C. Undii-wood, Connnniu/iii^' United Confedc'rule Veterans, C/iicage, III : 

General — The quartermaster-general of the army, in letter dated August i, 
1895, informs me that authority is granted for you to have erected, without cost to the 
United States, a suitable flag-staff, on the government lot in Oakwoods cemetery, in this 
city, with a view of occasionally flying the national colors over the graves of the Camp 
Douglar prison dead interred therein as recommended by me 
Reference is had to your letter dated June 14. 1895, 

Very respectfully. 
(Signed) M. I. LUDINGTON, 
Assistant Qiiartermaster-Geneial, United States Annv, Chief {hinrtennaster. 



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JOHN C. UNDERWOOD. M. G., U. C. V. IN OFFICIAL 
ACCOUNT WITH HIMSELF 

AS OFFICER IN CHARGE AND SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF ONE TO RAISE FUNDS, 

ERECT AND DEDICATE A MONUMENT OVER THE CONFEDERATE 

DEAD IN OAKVVOODS CEMETERY, CHICAGO, ETC. 



DETAIL OF CASH, SERVICE AND MATERIAL DONATED, AND THE 
DISPOSITION THEREOF. 



RFXEIPTS. 
To 

Cash from the ex-Confederate Association, Camp No. S, U.C.V , 
Chicago (the net proceeds of Gen. Gordon's lecture, with 

interest), etc 

Cash credit from the Southern Granite Company, Cincinnati. 
Ohio account of contract award to build monument. 

Cash from A. O. Slaughter, Chicago 

f'otter Palmer and wife, Chicago 

'■ Armour & Co.. per P. D. A., Chicago 

" H. N. Higinbotham, Chicago 

" Cyrus H. McCormick, Chicago 

" C. F. Gunther, Chicago 

'■ " The Chicago City R'y, per G. H. Wheeler, President 

" W. A. Alexander, Chicago 

" Chas, L Hutchinson, Chicago 

Samuel Baker, Chicago 

Lambert Tree, Chicago 

" " Chas. T. Yerkes, Chicago 

'■ The Southern Society of Chicago, per J. C U., 

President 

Cash from Siegel, Cooper & Co.. Chicago 

Cash through Col. Samuel J. Sullivan, Department Staff: 

From Sprague, Warner & Co, , Chicago 

W. F. McLaughlin, Chicago 

W. H. Colvin, Chicago 

L- C- Malley, Chicago 

W. M. Hoyt Company, Chicago 

L. J. IWcCormick, Chicago 

Walter T. Chandler, Chicago 

Theo. Noel, Chicago 

D. B. Scully, Chicago 

H. N. May, Chicago 

N. Martin & Co , Chicago 

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Broiti^fit forward 

From Merriam, Collins & Co., Chicago 

McNeill & Higgins Company, Chicago 
John A. Tolman Company, Chicago 

Sundry other sources 

Cash through Col. R. H. Stewart, Department StafI : 

From R. H Stewart, Chicago 

T. B. Blackstone, President C. & A R R.Chicago 

J j McCarthy, Chicago 

Frank Reraien, Chicago 

Mrs. John H. Bass, Fort Wayne. Ind 

Sherman, Williams & Co , Cleveland. (.)hio 

Sundry other sources 

Cash from percentage, account sale of refreshment privilege. . 
Cash through John S Hannah, Chicago: 

From Lamson Bros & Co , Chicago 

" Carrington, Hannah & Co., Chicago 

Henr\' Botsford, Chicago 

Chas Counselman, Chicago 

Cash through Gen C S. Bentley: 

From The Fairbank Canning Compan\ , Chicago 

Schwartz, Dupee & Co., Chicago 

Cash through sundry northern sources: 

From Lieut. -Col. Geo. Forrester, Division Staff, various 

Chicago contributions 

From Lieut. -Col. R L. France, Division Staff, contribu- 
tion of H. W. Finch, Chicago 

From Gen. John C Black, account contribution of Gen 

Lewis B. Parsons, Flora, 111 

Cash from Dennis Minogue, Chicago 

" T. B. Stringfield. Sheldon, Iowa 

" Mr Sabin, Chicago, per Miss Lucy Lee Hill ... . 
Cash through U. C. V. and other southern sources: 

From Camp Gen. LeRoy Stafford. No. 3, Shreveport, La. 
" N. B Forrest, No 4. Chattanooga, Tenn . . . 

Fred Ault, No. 5, Knoxville, Tenn 

Veteran Confederate States Cavalry, No g. 

New Orleans, La 

From Camp Ward Confederate Veteran Association, 

No. 10, Pensacola, Fla 

From Camp Baton Rouge, No 17, Baton Rouge. La ... 
Ben Humphreys No. 19, Crystal Springs, 

Miss 

From Camp Robert A. Smith, No 24, Jackson, Miss. . . . 

Walthall, No. 25, Meridian, Miss 

From Camp Confederate Historical Association No 28. 
Memphis, Tenn 

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X'icksburg. No. 32, Vicksburg, Miss 

Maj. Victor Maurin, No 38. Donaldson- 
La 

Stonewall Jackson, No. 42, McKenzie Tenn 
John C. Upton, No. 43, Huntsville, Texas,. 
Felix K ZoUicofter, No. 41'), Knoxville,Tenn. 
Albert Sidney Johnston, No 48, Tj'ler, Texas 

Montgomery, No 52, Rosedale, Miss 

Dibrell, No 55, Lewisburg, Tenn 

R PZ. Lee, No. 58, Jacksonville, Fla 

Rockwall, No 74, Rockwall, Texas 

Forbes, No, 77, Clarksville, Tenn 

Pat Cleburne, No 88, Cleburne, Texas ... 

Nassau, No. 104, Fernandina, Fla 

Magruder, No. 105, Galveston, Texas 

John H Morgan, No. 107. .Xrdmore, I T.. 
Shackleford-Fulton, No 114, Fayetteville, 

Tenn 

Bell County ex-Confederate Association, No. 

122, Belton, Texas 

John W. Caldwell, No 139, Russellville, Ky. 
Gen Joseph Finnegan, No. 149, Sanford,Fla. 

Sul Ross. No. 164, Bonham, Texas 

Washington City Confederate. No 171, 

Washington, D C 

E. Kirliy-Smith. No 175, St. Augustine, Fla, 
Winchester Hall, No 178, Berwick, La.... 
R E Lee, No iSi, Richmond, Va 

(per Lieut, -Col. R L. France Sio) 

Roger W. Hanson, No. iSG, Winchester, Ky 
Cabell, No. 202, Alma, .^rk. (per Miss F M 

Scott) 

John Wallace, No, 209, Van Buren, Ark 

(prr Miss F. M Scott) 

]fli Davis, No. 213, Conway, Ark 

McMillan, No 217, Chipley. Fla 

Pat Cleburne, No. 222, Waco, Texas 

Sumter, No. 250, Charleston, S. C 

Cape Fear, No. 254, Wiliuington, N. C... 
Elmore County, No. 255, Wetumpka, Ala. . 
Jos. E. Johnston, No 267, Greenville, Texas 

A P Hill. No 269, Texarkana, Texas 

Kmma Sansom, No. 275. Ciadsden, Ala ... 

I W Garrett, No 277, Marion, Ala 

Wm. Hart, No 286, Alvin, Texas 

Gracie, No, 291, Verbena, .\la 

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50 


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20 


00 


10 


00 



35.00 

5 . 00 



10.00 

10.00 

10.00 

25 .00 

25.00 

5.00 

5 .00 

5 .00 

5.00 

10.00 

10.00 

5.00 

10.00 



S840.00 $8 714.(13 



26 I 



/y!\>i{'^-/it forwiii'il . 

From Camp R C. Pulliam. Nci jyy. Greenville. S C". . . 
Jefferson Lamar. No 305, Covinj^ton, (la... 

RuHin. No, i.>o. Troy. .Ala 

T, ] Bullock. No- 33'- [-owndesboro. Ala.. 

Dick .\nderson. No 334. Sumter. S C 

" James D. Nance. No 336. Newberrs . S C 

Omer R. Weaver. No 354, Little Rock. .'\rk 

(from inili\iilual members, per Miss. 

F. M. ScottI 

From Camp Egbert J, Jones. No 357, Huntsville, .\la.. 
Pat Cleburne. No. 363, Paradise, Texas... 
J, E Johnston. No 377. Grand View. Texas 
John Bowie Strange. No 464, Charlottes- 
ville. V.i 

From Camp Page Pullen. No 512, Glouchestcr C. H .Va 

■■ J. F, Hill, No . Clarksville, Ark 

Leonidas Polk, No . Columbus, Tenn.. 

Twentieth Tenn Infantry, J W White, Secy.... 
Ark. Congl. Delegation (per Miss F M. ScottI.... 

Third Missouri Battery 

" Third North Carolina Infantry Association 

Confederate Veteran Association of Kentucky.... 
Cash through Miss Fannie M. Scott. Van Buren, Ark.: 




Si 5. 00 
9 . 00 
5 .00 

2 .t)0 



From T H Simms, Van Buren, Ark 

various sources, amounts aggregating 

" C T, McKinney, Ozark, Ark 

" J. M. Lucy, Pine Bluft. Ark 

Cols. Patridge and Gunter, .Ark 

Geo. Vaughan, Arkansas r 51. 

Mrs. C. R. Breckenridge. .Arkansas.. i oc 
Cash from Lieut. John Cussons. Va . at Confed- 
erate Con.. Birmingham. Ala 

Cash from Cien \V .A Cliiple\-, Pensacola. Fla 

Senator Pasco. Ocala. Fla 

Mrs J. ]. L^ickinson, Ocala. Fla 

J. E. Moseley, Alton. Mo . 

Hon. D. J. Fox, Mayor, Birmingham. .Ala 

" Mrs. S, v.- Brewer, Tenn,. at Confederate Con 

Birmingham, .Ala (per Col S, A, Cunningham 

Cash from Miss Amanda C. Childress, New Orleans, La 

(receipted bill) 

Cash from Dr. -A. S J Stovall, Elberton, Ga 

A. T Cioodloe (sundry sul)s, ), Chapel Hill, Tenn,. 

" " Net from six subs, per Robt. Bean, Forestburgh. Tex 

Cash from C W Frazer, Memphis, Tenn 

Carrii'd fi>i-,jaril . . 



26.00 

25.00 

5.00 

5 ■ ■-"-' 

25.00 

5 00 

I o . 00 

10 .00 

i5.oo 

10 . 00 

5 .00 

5 00 

25 00 



.15-5" 

25.00 
25 00 
20.00 
20.00 
1 5 . 00 
10 . 00 





10.00 








8 . 00 








6 . 0( t 








5.9^ 








5.00 
21.7.42 






«1 


$8,714. 


'M 




262 



Brouglit foi-i-Hiyd 

Cash from S. D. Van Pelt and Capt. Alex. Tribble, collections 

from drop box at P. O. , Danville, Ky 

Cash from ]. W. Barr, Winchester, Va 

■ Misses A. and M. Lubbock, Texas, at Confederate 

Con,, Birmingham, Ala 

Cash from Miss Anna Maul, Ala , at Confederate Con , Bir- 
mingham, Ala 

Cash from Gen. A. T. Watts, Texas, at Confederate Con , 

Birmingham, Ala 

Cash from Col Jno. P. Hickman, Nashville, Tenn 

■ ' W . W. Pate, Kingston, Texas 

■• Capt. F. M. Colston, Baltimore, Md (per I\ L 

France) 

Cash from Judge W, L Dulaney, Bowling Green, Ky 

'■ Lamar Fontaine, at Confd. Con, Birmingham, Ala 

" Old Soldier, 

Cash credit through sale of subscriptions without recourse: 

Draft on Camp Gen. Leroy Stafford, No.3,Shrevep't, La. 
" " " KaphaelSemmes, No. 11, Mobile, Ala... 

Turney, No, 12, Winchester, Tenn 

Ben Humphreys. No. ig. Crystal Springs, 

Miss 

Draft on Camp Sterling Price. No, 31, Dallas, Texas . . . 

Frank Cheatham, No 35, Nashv'le, Tenn 

John Ingram, No 37, Jackson, Tenn.... 

Barnard E, Bee, No. 84, Aiken, S. C. .. , 

Mildred Lee, No. go, Sherman, Texas.., 

Jno. B. Hood, No. 103, Austin, Texas.., 

■' " Winnie Davis, No. 108, Waxahatchie, Tex 

Col. Dud Jones, No 121, Mt, Pleasant " 

Bowl'g Green, No 143, Bowl'g Green, Ky 

Lomax, No. 151, Montgomery, .Ala 

Bessemer, No 157, Bessemer, .Ala 

R. E, Lee, No. 158, Fort Worth, Texas. . 

• Fulton Co., Ga., No. i5g, .\tlanta, Ga,. 

Hill County, No. i56, Hillsboro, Texas. . 

John R. Cooke, No. 1S4, West Point, Va 

" '■ Dick Dowling, No. ig7, Houston, Texas, 

Franklin K. Beck, No, 224, Camden, .\la. 

W. A. Percy, No 239, Greenville, Miss. 

Chas M. Shelley, No, 246, Talladega, Ala 

■ ?:imore Co., No 255, Wetumpka, Ala... 

Felham, No. 258, Anniston, .\la 

Lee County, No. 261, Opelika, Ala 

( 'an i,;l ffli-.oarj 



$i,257'.42 



i,7i4-'53 



5.00 






5.00 






5.00 






5,00 






5 .00 






3 .00 






2 .00 






2 ,00 






1 .00 






1 .00 






1 ,00 


$1,302 


42 


10.00 






50.00 






10.00 






10,00 






50.00 






25 .00 






10.00 






10.00 






25.00 






1 , 00 






10.00 






10.00 






10.00 






25.00 






5.00 






25.00 






50.00 






10.00 






10,00 






50.00 






10.00 






35.00 






10,00 






5 , 00 






10.00 






10.00 







$ 595-00 $10,017.05 



26: 



BroHg/it fo)"iHiyd 

Draft on Camp Lake Co , Confederate Veterans' Associa- 
tion. No. 279. Umatilla, Fla 

Draft on Camp E. A. O'Neill, No. 298, Florence, .\la ... 

Tom Hendman, No 318, Newport, Ark. 

" " " Walker, No 335. Spartanburg, S C .... 
John James. No. 350, St- Stephens. .-Ma . . 

.\bner Perrin.No 367,Edgelield C. H ,S C 

R. H. G. Gaines, No. 370. Lower Peach 

Tree. Ala 

Draft on Camp Thos. H. Hobbs. No. 400, Athens. .Ala.. 

Lee, No. 401, Alexander City. Ala 

' J. B Kershaw, No. 413. Cheraw. S. C... 

' Secession. No. 416, Abbeville, S. C 

' Tom Coleman, No. 429. Uniontown. Ala. 

N B Forrest, No. 430. Scottsboro. .Ma. 

D. Wyatt .\iken. No 432. Greenwood. S,C, 
K. G. Prewitt. No 439. Chester, Miss... 

Manning Austin, No 454, Simpsonville, 

S C 

Draft on Camp John C. Brown, No. 468, El Paso, Te.xas 

McDaniel. No. 487, Carrollton. Ga 

Emanuel Finley, No. 498. Calera. Ala . 

J.Ed Murray, No. 510. Pine Bluff. Ark. 

' Benning. No. 511, Columbus. Ga 

Standwiddie. No. 514, Indian Territory. 

Clayton. Sons of Veterans of Birming- 
ham. .Ala 

Draft on Camp Sons of Veterans of Uniontown. .Ma, 

" Lieut-Gen. W. L. Cabell. Dallas. Texas 

" Confederate Veteran Association 

" State Division. U, C, V., Texas 

" State of North Carolina, U V C 

" Surviving Members Fourth Alabama Regiment 

Cash paid and exchange value of obligations assumed and 

donated by John C. Underwood, to balance 




10.00 
lu. 00 
10.00 
10.00 
10 .00 
10. 00 

5.00 
10.00 

5.00 

5 .00 
25.00 
5.00 
5.00 
10 00 
10.00 
10.00 

25.00 
5.00 

10.00 

20.00 
100.00 
100.00 

25.00 



504 . 2 1 



Carried forward to recapitulation table Si i. 61 1 .26 




264 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



.$2.(:)0("). 



•45 



Amounts paid the Southern (jranite ("nmpany; 
Said Company's subscription to monument ... 
.\mount expended advertising in the south 

.\mount in hand paid $ 200.00 

.\moiint in hand paid 200,00 

.\mount in hand paid 100.00 

Amount in hand paid 3,000.00 

.Amount in hand paid 500.00 

.Amount in hand paid 1,000.00 

Amount in hand paid 400.00 

Amount in hand paid 150,00 5.550.00 

.\mount paid Geo. O. Clincli, on ordt-r 440. 21 

.\monnt credited by transfer of sundry subscriptions 
of U (?. \' Camps, etc., covering errors (if any) 

and w ithout recourse i.ogo.oo 

Amount cash and exchange paid liy J. C. V per- 
sonally (52'36. 08 and $200 00) 405.08 

Amounts variously paid, viz: 

Chattanooga Car and Foundry Company. . . . 

Cohen l*v: Co . printers 

Office expenses 

Stationery 

Postage 1892-4 

Telegrams during back years 

Expressage " " " 

Stenographic services 1892-4 141 .30 

Four years' traveling expenses promoting movement. 563.77 
Sundries, remodeling, boxing and handling statue, 
etc., painting ordnance, special assistants, lobby- 
ing and various small incidentals 442.86 

.Miss A. C. Childress (receipted bill), credit balance in. 00 



15" 


00 


292 


5" 


go 


^5 


95 


85 


219 


76 


17 


45 


19 


7« 



Sg, 51.7. 74 



2.043.52 $iii,6ii.-^& 



Carried forward to recapitulation table $11,611 .26 

C. Underwood and find them 



W ■ have examined the above accounts of Gen. John 
correct, and approve of the disbursements made by him. 



1 K LEE FRANCE. 
(Signed) R. H STEWART. 

' SAMUEL J. SULLIVAN 
Finance Coiiiiinttci of Camp A^a. S, U. C. V . 



CHir.\GO, Aoril 19 1S94. and October 26. 1895. 



..^":: ■. 



265 



RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF FUND RAISED BY 
CHICAGO CITIZENS' COMMITTEE. 




KKCKIFTS 



Cash from FenliiiMml \\' I 'ink Snio 

Henry L. Turner 100 

" Alexander \\. K wU .... 100 

" ■' K L Henr\- H)o, 

■■ H G. Seltriil,s;e 100 

■■ W D Kerfont too 

J. J. Mitchell 100. 

" " C. L. Hutchinson io<.) . 

John R. Walsh 100. 

Geo Schneider ro(.), 

" " L Z. Letter 100. 

" " C A. Chapman 100. 

E F. Lawrence. . iO(^. 

" " Chas Counselman 100. 

•' K, A Waller too. 

•■ J C Black 100. 

" " A r moil r lV ('o 1 00 . 

" Willoughby. Hill X Co 100. 

G. B. Shaw 100 . 

N W Flarris mo. 

Martin .\ Kyerson loo. 

.\ C Bartlett mo 

Otto Young 100. 

A M Kothschihl mo 

C J Blair 100. 

C W Corwith 100. 

Carson. Pirie, Sciitl \- Co 100. 

M McLeich too 

H.H.Porter 100. 

C H. McCorniick 100. 

H V\ Kohlsaat 100. 

John Dupee too. 

" " Lyman J. Gage 50. 

C F. Gunther 50. 

" " Francis Beidler 50. 

'■ •' Washington Hesing 50. 

Seigel, Cooper t^: (^o. ... 50. 

Geo. F. Kimball Comprmy So . 

" " Wm. H. Harper 50. 

Carrii-i/ for-,iuirJ 



00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 



00 
00 
00 
(.to 
00 
00 
00 
tto 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 



00 
00 
00 
00 
00 



00 
00 
00 



S_l.550.00 




2 66 



BroH-^hl forward 

li from N, B. Ream 

F. S. Winston 

■■ Rand. McXally \- Co 

■' \V T, Baker 

F. C fosclyn 

F. J Kennett 

I- I> Knecland 

■■ W J Wilson 

Owen F. Aldis 

Joy Morton 

" C. T, Trego 

" n H, Burn ham 

■■ K. L Lobdell 

j. Harley Bradley 

" M. D. Wells 

■' P. J. Sexton 

Adolpli Nathan 

■' W H Judson 

Geo, E, Marshall 

" C, P, Kimball Company 

E S. Lacey 

E. H. Ream 

Byron L Smith 

M, L- C. Funkhouser. 

K. H. Pearson 

F. H Dnmmer . . . . 

A, C, Soper 

Knight & Marshall 

'■ E.E.Maxwell 

■• C F. Hills , .. , 

Unknown subscriber 

Sale of se\'ent\-fonr banquet tickets at Sh.oo. 



50.00 
50 . 00 
50 . 00 
50.00 
50.00 
50.00 
50.00 
50.00 
50. CO 
50.00 
50.00 
50.00 
50.00 
50.00 
50.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25 .00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
25.00 
20.00 
10.00 
10.00 
10.00 
444.00 



S3. 550- 00 



Carried forward to recapitulation table. 
Examined and found correct. 



$1,544.00 
.$5,094.00 



(Signed) 



HENRY 
S, 



L. TURNER, 
cretarv Cifizt'ns' Cominiltfe, 



DISBURSEMENTS. 

BY 

Disbursed by Treasurer Turner, through J. C Underwood: 
.Amount paid Oakwoods Cemetery Association, on 
order So. Granite Co.. account 
construction of monument founda- 
tion $432. 20 

.\mountpaid Chattanooga Car and Foundry Co. . 140. So 

J L Fulton & Co., for foundations 175.00 



Ciir>-i,-,i J'orliHird. . 



S74S.06 



26; 

Broiii;/:! foi"i<iird 

Amniint paid \V. S Jackson, £or f,'rand stand. . . 

for decorating grand stand 

Gallaglier Floral Company 

Western Bank Note Compan\' . ... 

■ ■ Rand, McNally A: Co 

I-eroy Payne \' Co 

Imperial-.Vrion Octet 

Palmer Hous'.- 

Barrett's Bindery 

for staiionery 

" postage. 

" teL-grams 

" expressage 

" stenographic services 

" office assistan t 

■' J. C. U, ($ioo and $244 94) refund- 
ing expenses 

.Amount paid .Arthur Dixon Transfer Company.. 

■■ P> F Jenkins 

refunding expenditures of guests.. 

for special assistance 

'■ ■' newspapers for guests 

Disbursed by Treasurer Turner, direct 

Amounts paid, viz; 

Kinsley & Bauman. account banquet 

C. H. Smiley, account refreshments at armory 
Pullman Band, account music at cemetery. . 
Rogers & Wells, Dunwell & F'ord and Geo E 

Cole, for stationery, printing, etc 

Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett, for cartridges 
M. L. Allen, for reporting speeches at banquet 

Postage stamps 

Clerical service 

Varif.ius amounts paid for sundry ser\ices.etc., 

reported in aggregate by Col, Turner. , . 

Cash on hand as reported by Col Turner, . . 




344 ■')4 
35.00 
1 5 . 50 
JO. 00 
1 5 . 00 
6 . 60 



.ojr, 


12 


174 


00 


521 


00 


7-^ 


50 


4'^ 


20 


4« 


25 


5" 


00 


,s 


.00 


2JO 


27 


75 


92 



$2,829.74 



.26 



Carried forward to rec;ipitid;ili'>n l,dile 



55,094 .00 
$5,094.00 



CERTIFICATE 



Examined and found correct, as approved and paid under audit by K, A Waller, 
G, B. Shaw and R. L, Henry, finance committee 

(Signed! HENRY L TURNKI;, 

St'irc'/tirv Ci/izl-iis' Ci'iii iu ilfcc-. 



"»->.. 




2 68 



BALANCED ENTRIES OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS 

OF DONATlOiN'S BY CASH CREDITS ON BILLS AND IN SERVICES AND 
MATERIALS ABSOLUTE AND ESTIMATED. 

RECEIPTS. 



Cash value from United States Government. Iiv act ot Con- 
gress donating cannon, shot and shell, esti- 
mate by Lieut. J. T. Thompson. Ord Dept. 

U. S, A 

Cash value from The Oakwoods Cemetery Ass'n, Chicago , . . 

Palmer House (estimate) 

■■ Cohen &Co., Cincinnati,©. .printing, etc (est ) 

'■ I^and, McNally & Co., Chicago (estimate).. 

Western Hank Note Company, Chicago.... 

■ .\rthur I'lxon Transfer Company, Chicago. . 

K 1 1 Stewart, Chicago 

Leroy Payne, Chicago 

R L France. Jr. Chicago (estiinate) 

■' Chattanooga Car and Foundry Company, 

Chattanooga. Tenn 

Cash value from E W, Blatchford & Co , Chicago 

" Adams and Southern Express Companies(f St. ) 

J icob, Cole^ & Co , Chicago 

.\ I, Fife, Chicago 

1 ;.iltimore& Ohio Railroad (estimate) 

■ (■. C C & St. L (Big Four) R'y (estimatel. 

■■ Illinois Central Railroad (estimate) 

" Cincinnati Southern Railway ((,)ueen and 

Crescent Route) (estimate) 

Cash value from L N A & C. R'y (Monon) (estimate) 

C (V E I . L & N, N C. & St L . and 

W & .A Railroads (estimate) 

Cash value from Southern R'y, Cent. R. R. of C.a . .\ & 

■W, P. and M K & T Railroads (estimate) 

Cash v.ilur from Pullman Palace Car Company (esti)uate) . . . 



$3,500 00 

557-7S 

600 . 00 

300 . 00 

200.00 

85. 00 

79.00 

63.90 

Oo . 00 

30 . CO 

25.00 
21.58 

50.00 

10 . 00 

10.00 

750 -OO 

400.00 

250.00 

200.00 
100.00 



1 50 . 00 

300.00 $7,942.26 



Carried forward to recapitulation table 

DISBURSEMENTS 
(B.\L.\NCE)J e.stries ) 



$7,942.26 



Ordnance from United States government 

Tablet, etc . Chattanooga Car and Foundr)' Co. . 
Sundry Services from Oakwoods Cemetery .Asso- 
ciation 

Ccriicd fiiy-<<ni\l 



J25 00 

557-78 



' $3,500.00 



S582.78 $3,500.00 



269 T 

Hniiii^hl foi-.<>tird $5X2 .78 Sj.ioo.oi. 

Printing supplies and rosters of dt-nd by Cohen & 

Co , Cincinnati 300.00 

Donation oft of liill of Western 15 ink Note Co. . . S5.00 

■ Rand. McXalh A: Co 200.00 

" r,i>neA'Co.. 60.00 

" .Arthur Di.Min Company. . . yq.oo 

K, H Stewart, donating cash paid for rosters. . . 63.90 
R. L France, Jr . donating s'.rvices copying 

rosters 30 . 00 

E. W. Blatchford & Co.. lead filling sh Us, etc. . 21 .5.S 

Jacob Coles & Co., credit donation on bill 10.00 

.A L Fife, credit donation on bill 10.00 1,442.26 

Complimentary transportation and entertainment 
— estimates 

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 750.00 

C, C. C, & St, L. (Big Four) Railway 400.00 

Illinois Central Railroad 250. tx) 

Cincinnati Southern Ry (Queen & Crescent). 2i'o.oo 

L. X ,\ & C. Railwav (MononI 100.00 

C. & E. I., L & N . X. C iV St, L and 

\V. .\- Railroads 200 , 00 

Southern R'y, Central Railroad of G'orgia, 

.\. & W. P. and M, K, & T. Railroads. . 150.00 

.\dams and Southern Express Companies... 50.00 

Pullman Palace Car Company 300.00 

Palmer House Tioo.oo 3,000.00 $7,1^42.26 

Carried forward to recapitulation table $7,942 . 26 

The balanced donations as abo\e are absolute amounts by receipted bills or credits 

on bills, and in estimates, by a llnited St.ites army officer, prominent general passengir 

agent, and an e.vperienced hotel manager. 




REC.APITCL.ATIOX 



DISBURSEMENTS 



Ag. cols. thro. Spcl Com Sii,i>ii.j6 .\g e\p bv Spcl. Com Sii 611.26 

by Cits Com 5,094,00 Cits. Com, S5. oiS .oS 

'■ val. of donations 7.942.21) Cash held by " " 75-92 5.094.00 

.\g, val, of donations (balanced) 7,942.26 



Grand total $24,647.52 



Cirand total. 



.$24,647.52 



Total receipts in cash and values $24,647.52 

Less cash on hand, reported by Secretary Cits, Committee, 75-92 



P^ntire cost of monument, dedication and demonstration. 



624,571.60 




270 



COMMITTEE PLACED IN CHARGE OF THE MONUMENT. 

HEADyUARTEKS I'lV, NoKTHWEST. U C V., ) 

Chicago. May 30, 1805. ( 

7'n Eadi ,1/ III,- Fiv, Coiiinuln .Vmii,-,/ in Coiiimuiiiculioii : 

Sir ANii Comrade — You are hereby appointed a member of the monument com- 
mittee of five, to which the care of the Conf.ederate monument, cannon, other ordnance 
and btirial plot in Oakwoods cemetery, this city, is specially intrusted and delegated. 
All under the rules of the said cemetery and supervising control of the U S. .\rm; 
officer ha\ing charge of the government lot 

The roster of the monument committee is as follows: Col R. H. Stewart, Col. 
Samuel J Sullivan, I,ieut -Col K, Lee France, Lieut-Col. Geo. Forrester, Lieut-Col. 
John \\' \\hitp: all officers and past officers of Camp No, S, II C. V 

Thfr committee is empowered with full authority to perpetuate itself, by filling 
vacancies therein which may occur liy death, removal from the city or, in fact, from 
any cause 

The committees actions shall be subject to inspection by the division commander 
and other proper U. C. V oHicers 

Special orders pertinent to this commission will issu . and be promulgated 

In confidence and with command, 

(Signed) JOHN C, UNDERWOOn, 

M<>/or-iji'iiiTii/, (_'. C I'. C>'iiiiihiihliiii^\ 



GENERAL THANKS. 



The author desires to thus publicly thank the various contributors to the monument 
and other funds; Chicago Camp No. 8, and other bodies of the United Confederate 
Veteran Federation: the Sons of Veterans U. C. V.: various committees and ladies of 
the south that s -cured flowers; the Chicago Citizens' committee of 130; the First regi- 
ment infantry, ' D" Batt ry I-ight Artill 'ry, Chicago City Troop "C," 1 X, G : the 
Black Hussars, independent cavalry; Columbia Fost No. 706, G. A. R.; associated press 
of the general country; G-.n D. W. Flagl .-r, chief of ordnance, U. S. A ; G'n. J D. Bing- 
ham, Col M I Ludington and Maj. F. I-I. Hathaway, quartermaster department, U. S. .\. : 
the Chicago Ijoard of Trade, various clubs and theaters of Chicago, the Chamberof Com- 
merce and Queen City club of Cincinnati; the commandant and officers at Fort Thomas, 
Ky., and all others not specially thanked, for support and assistance', incidental to the 
construction and dedication of the Confederate monument at Chicago, and the rec;'ption 
and entertainment of the guests on the great occasion of the north-.TU-southern 
demonstration 



.^^^ -, 



-VI 




OFI'ICIAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



COXFKDKKATl': CEMETERY AT RUCK ISLANU 

Office of the Chief of Ordnance, i 
United States Army, 
Washington, D. C . February 26, 1895. \ 
a,,r John C. riut.-ru'.H^.I, U. C. ]'. ,/<-.,■ 

Mv Dear General — In compliance with your request that I give you a sliort 
<lescription of my work in grading and litting up the Confederate Soldiers' cemetery at 
Rock Island arsenal while that arsenal was under my command, I take pleasure in 
stating as follows: 

This cemetery consists of a plot of ground 263 feet 7 inches by 266 feet 7 inches, 
as shown on accompanying map, and the burials in it were the bodies of soldiers who 
died from sickness and wounds from the hospital attached to the military prison on the 
island of Rock Island during our civil war. There were 1,960 buried there Many of 
these burials were made during the extreme cold of winter, when the ground was fro/en 
to a depth of from three to four feet, and the difficulties of excavation had left the 
ground quite rough It had never been nicely graded before the burials I took com- 
mand of the arsenal in May 1871 The temporary board fence which had been built 
around the plot of ground was at that time broken down There was no .ippropri.ition 
or fund with which this cemetery could be htted up 1 had the ground nicely graded, 
seeded and sodded by my enlisted men I then planted a Confederate cannon at each of 
the four corners of the plot of ground and by ordinates measured from the axes of these 
guns, determined the actual location of each grave, made a plat of the same, numbered each 
grave on the plat, and prepared five lists of the dead, giving the same numbers on these 
lists that are given on the plat, so that by obtaining the names of any of the dead, liy the 
corresponding number, the exact location of each man's grave can be determined upon 
the plot- I then laid out a walk around the plot and made the fence by running an iron 
chain on each side between the guns and supporting it by iron posts placed aljout twelve 
feet apart, leaving the chain drooping between the posts I also planted two rows of 
trees around the plot, one on each side of the walk, and laid out a drive, by which visi- 
tors could reach it and pass along one side of the cemetery- I took pains to keep the 
cemetery in nice order during my fifteen years' command of the arsenal, and 1 believe 
this attention to it has been continued since Very sincerely yours, 

(Signed) D. \V, FLACLEK, 
Bii •,'(?, I'li-r-Ut-ni'ia/, Clitcf of OrJihiiitt, U S A 



COURTESIES. 



FIRST REGIMENT IXFANTRY, I. N, G. 



Chicago, March 27, 1S95, 
Cull yohi! C Uiulerii'ood, Co7'iiig/ivi, h'v.: 

Dear Sir — In reference to your invitation that myself and the First regiment 
co-operate in the dedication ceremonies of the Confederate monument in Oakwoods 
cemetery, and the reunion of prominent generals of both the Union and Confederate 
service on May 30, 1S95, I have to say that I shall be glad to place at your disposal a 




volunteer company* from the regiment for service at the cemetery in the morning and 
will personally assume responsibility for all details of the reception to be given the 
visiting officers at the First regiment armory in the evening, including in the pro- 
gram, if desired, a regimental parade I should be glad to serve on your reception 
committee. 

That you may understand my action is not only authorized but appro\ ed by my 
superior officers, I have to add that I hold appro\al from .\djt -Gen. Orendorff and Gen. 
Wheeler. Yours \er\' truly. 

(Signedl HKNKV L. TURNER, 

Coloiu-t Fin/ Jll/.niliy /. /V, G. 



FIRST SQU.XDRON CAV.XLRY. I X. G. 

Chicago City Troop. / 

Chic.\go, April 6, 1895. \ 
G(ir ydni C. Uiider^vood, Ci/y: 

Mv De.\r Sir — I have the honor to tender to you the Chicago City Troop to act as 
an escort to the distinguished Union and ex-Confederate generals, who will visit Chi- 
cago, May 30th, to participate in the dedication e.\ercises at Oakwoods cemetery. 

Trusting that the escort will be accepted, and assuring you that we shall feel greatly 
honored thereby, believe me, my dear sir. Your most obedient servant, 

(Signed) M. L. C. FUNKHOUSER, 

CiJptain Commaiidini^. 

INDEPENDENT CAVALRY. 

Hlack Hussars. ) 

Chicago, .\pril 15, 1895 ( 
ijiii Liin/ir7v:uni\ City: 

Dear C.kner.\l — On behalf of the Black Hussars of the City of Chicago. I hereby 
tender their services as escort to you for service on the 30th of May at the unveiling of 
the ex-Confederate monument Yours truly. 

(Signed) L M. COPE, (Signed) T. S. yUINCEY. 

First .S,-rgc-iiiit. Captain. 



FIRST BATTALION ARTILLERY. I. N. G. 

Headquarters 1 

"D" Battery. Light Artillery, I. N. G, j- 
Chicago. Mav, 1805, ) 

a.'il. Jolin C. Ull.l.Tmv,/. Palmer llousr. City: 

Sir — I herebv tender the courtesy of firing a national salute from Lake Front park 
on the morning of May jo. next, as the Confederate parade passes along Michigan 
avenue en route to Oakwoods cemetery, to dedicate the monument over the southern 
dead there buried. 

I would be glad to fire the guns at the cemetery, but it will he impossible for me to 
do so and return in time to take part in the memorial parade in the afternoon. 

Very respectfully, 

(Signed) ALFRED RUSSELL. 

Captain Camtitaiuiiii:^'. 



*The entire regiment vnhnileered and tired three volleys over tlie Confederate dead in tlle 
cemetery. 



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TRI-STATE VETERANS' ASSOCIATION 



Ohio. 

Gov. J. B. FORAKKK, 

St'cottti I'it-c-Presii 



Indiana, 
Gov, Isaac P. Grav. 




m ichigan, 
Gow R. a, Alger. 

First Vice-rrcsiiitnt. 



Colonel ] \V, Vounge, 
A^lltltant-i.U')U-r>il 

Ft'RT \^'A^■NE, Ini-l , May iq, 1S05 
Gen. John C UnJer-vooJ. C/aaiQv. III. : 

De.^r Sir — I have the honor to respectfully inform ynu that I have been requested 
by the Tri-State Veterans' Association, to be present at the unveiling of the monument 
at Chicago. May 30th. in honor of the Confederate dead, as the representative of the 
above association Their fortitude, privations, courage and bravery merit our respect 
Braver men never drew a saber or shouldered a musket than the Confederate soldiers. 
They were Americans, and that co\ers all- 

I propose arriving at Chicago Wednesday night, on train No. 7, via V Ft \V & 
C. R. R. (29th instant.) Where will your headquarters be Thursday morning' 

(Signed) j, W. YOUNGE. 
AJjiilajit-Gcnertil Tri-Stale Veternns^ As.^otin[i,ui . 

CHICAGO VETERAN ASSOCIATION, 

HEADyUARTERS, 1 

Chicago Veteran Association, [- 
Chicago, May 24, 1895 ) 

Gen. jfo/in C. Uuilei%i.'ood, City: 

Dear Sir — The Chicago Veteran Association will hold memorial services in 
Oakwoods cemetery at their lot, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1895, at 11:00 a. m , sharp. 
Immediately thereafter they will proceed to the Confederate lot and decorate the graves 
of the Confederate soldiers there interred The association will also place near the 
monument of the Confederate dead a magnificent floral cross, eight feet high. This 
association has for the past fourteen years decorated the Confederate graves in Oakwoods 
cemetery, and, in 1884, had a mound of flowers forty feet by twentv feet, upon the 
Confederate lot, with the words "Confederate Dead ' This association is heartily in 
favor of your work, in erecting a monument in honor of brave men, and we hereby 
pledge to you our support and sympathy. 

We remain most resiiectfully yours, 

(Signed) C. J. ANDREWS, 

Secretarv Cliicago Veteran Association 

DECORATINC; COMMITTEE. 

CHiiAr.o, June 15, 1895. 
Gen. yohn C. Underivood , Majoe-Gen-nal Connnaniiin^^ U. C /''..' 

Mv Dear General — The following is a list of the ladies and gentlemen who 
assisted in the work of decorating on May 29th, at Oakwoods cemetery 

Mesdames Walter F. Moring, Charles Ingrain. John P. Fitzgerald, R. Lee France, 
S. H. Richardson, Tilden, Bailey, McChesney, Nalle, I.inde. 
Misses Cora Moring, Alice Carbin. 
Comrades J. S. Busk. W. B. Phipps, E G Leitch, Bennett. 

Very truly your comrade, 

(Signed) B F. JENKINS, 

Major and A. D. C. 



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ENDORSEMENT OF THE PROPOSED CHICAGO 
SOUTHERN MOVEMENT. 



Chicago, June 11, 1895. 

In consequence of the great success of Chicago's late friendly demonstration toward 
the southern states, through the very cordial reception and hospitable entertainment of 
distinguished military representatives therefrom, because of the favor and good feeling 
in which Chicago is held throughout the entire south, and with the purpose of strength- 
ening such reciprocal good will. Gen. John C. Underwood's plan for the business firms 
of the city to send to the Cotton States' exposition at Atlanta, the middle to last of 
October, a large delegation of classified representatives, to be accompanied by the 
Directory of the late Columbian exposition, and all under the escort of the First 
regiment infantry, I. N. G. is heartily approved. 

Therefore, the undersigned agree to lend their aid toward furthering such move- 
ment, with the immediate view of constituting a general committee as a basis for 
subsequent organization and determination of collective and special interests, plans to 
be perfected hereafter, and will endeavor to attend a preliminary meeting on call. 



THE PRESS 

H. H. Kohlsaat, The Times- 1 lei aid and Evening Post. 

R. A. Patterson, The Cliimgo Trihtiue. 

Wm. Penn Nixon, TIte Chicago Inter Oiean. 

■Victor F. Lawson, The Chicago Record anA Evening News. 

H. W. Seymour, I'iie Chronicle. 

Melville E. Stone, Associated Press. 

John R. Wilson, The Jotirna/. 

F. C. Pierce, Chicago Evening Janrn,i! 

Joseph R. Dunlop. Tlie Dispatch 

PUBLIC OFFICIALS. 

His Honor, Geo, B, Swift, Mayor of Chicago. 

Maj.-Gen Alfred Orendorfl, Adjutant-General State of Illinois. 

Brig. -Gen Harris A. Wheeler, First brigade I. N. G. 

Col. Henry L. Turner, P^irst Regiment infantry, I. N. G. 



BANKERS AND CAPITALISTS. 

Lyman J. Gage, First National Bank. 

John J. Mitchell, Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. 

John R. Walsh, Chicago National Bank. 

C. L. Hutchinson, Corn Exchange Bank, 

G. B. Shaw, American Trust and Savin.ijs Bank. 



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Ferdinand \V Peck, Capitalist. 
E. F. Lawrence. Capitalist. 
Clarence I. Peck, Capitalist 
J. ]. P. Odell, Union National Bank. 

E. S- Lacey. Bankers' National Bank. 
Chauncey J. Blair. Merchants' National Bank. 
John W King. Fort Dearborn National Bank. 
Byron L. Smith. Northern Trust Company. 
William .\. (iilt-s. Capitalist. 

Francis B. Peabody, Bank'-r. 

Henry 'W. L-.'man. Title and Trust Company. 

Chas. L. WiUoughby. Capitalist, and of Willoughby. Hill .t Co 

Winston & (.'o , Bankers and Brokers. 

F. H. Winston. Capitalist. 
Robt. Law. Capitalist. 




GRAIN. COMMISSION .\ND BOARD 

Charles Counsi-lman of Chas Counsel 

Carrington. Hannah & Co, B A Eckhart. 

Hoyd J. Smith. E. A Big^l'ow. 

L. W. Bodman, S G. Lynn. 

Francis ]. Kenneth. Harry Raymond. 

R. W, Dunham James Crighton. 

U, T. Wright. W S Seav.-rns. 

Calumet Grain & Elevator Co Frank Marshall. 



Wm T. Baker. 
W. P, McCabe. 
J. H. Osborne 
Geo. T. Essix. 
Theo. R. Wright. 
H. W. Rogers 
William J Doe 
P B. Weare. 
C S Bentley. 
W. H. Crocker. 
John Hill. Jr. 
F. M. Scotield 



Israel P Rumsey. 
S A Scribner, 
J. H Hurlbut. 
J. W Richard 
Jno. J. Bryant. 
Ira S Isadore. 
James Carrathers. 
Buell (irain Cnmpan\ 
Wm. J. Pope 
Chas. T Raymond. 
Star Crescent Milling Co 
Geo W Stone. 



OF TRADE. 

man cv: Co. 
Wm H Harp r 
Ernest F. Smith. 
F. L, Stevens, 
J H Norton, 
W S, Booth, 
C, W. Requa 
W C, Erwin tS: Co 
Gilbert Montague, 
John C Nately, 
Wm, B, .\ndrews, 
John Cudahy. 
A, W. Green. 
Henry Batford 
John Gaynor, 
F. S. Hanson. 
J. H Wilbury. 
Roswell P Fish. 
E B Baldwin 



Swift & Co. 



PACKERS 



.\ H Veeder. 

A Booth Packing Company. 



Libbv. McNeill \- Libbv 



(;rocers 



A A. Sprague. — Sprague, Warner & Co 

W. M. .Hoyt & Co 

John A. Tolman Company 



Franklin Mac'Veagh A: Co 

Reid. Murdoch & Co. 

C Jevne & Co. (Otto C. EricsonI 



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CONFECTIONER. 
C. F Ganth^r. 



COMMISSION, FRUITS AND PRODUCE 



Washinston Porter of Porter Bros. 



Alfred Russell & Co. 
John Muir 
Wayne Low. 
A H Barber. 
Wm. Martin & Co. 
S. R. Udell & Co. 



C. W Cornell 

]. H. Johnston & Co 

Earl Bros 

Price & Keith. 

A. A Kennard & Co. 

John A. Palni;r uS: Co. 



Merrill iV Eldredge. 



J. F. Fish & Co 
T. S Randall & Co. 
A H Weaver & Co 
E. R Baker. 
A. C Dow & Co. 
Barnett Bros. 
E. A. Roser & Co. 



DRY GOODS 



H N Higinbotham of Marshall Field (.V Co. 
Jno G. Shedd of Marshall Field & Co. 
Harry G Selfridgeof Marshall Field cV Co 
A L Bell of Marshall Field & Co 
John E Scott of Carson, Pirie. Scott & Co. 



A. McLeish of Carson. Pirie, Scott & Co. 
A. M, Rothschild of A. M. Rothschild & Co. 
David Mayer of Schlesinger & Mayer. 
E. Mandel of Mandel Bros. 
Siegel. Cooper & Co., per F. H Cooper. 



Chas. B. Farwell of J. V. Farwell & Co 



BOOTS AND SHOES. 

C. M. Henderson & Co , by Martin Howard 
M. D Wells & Co. Selz, Schwab & Co. 

Phelps, Dodged Palmer Company C. H. Fargo & Co. 

Geo. W. Ludlow Company, C. N. Black, treasurer. 



CLOTHIERS 

Henry W. King & Co. L. C Wachsmuth iV Co 

E Rothschild & Bros. Cahn, Wampold & Co 

Guthman. Ullman & Silverman. H. G 



Ederheimer, Stein A: Co 
Kihn Bros. 
Purinlon, merchant tailor. 



CLOAKS. 
Griswold. Palmer & Co. B. Israel & Co. 



F, Siegel iV Bros 



HATS, CAPS, GLOVES AND STRAW GOODS 
Keith Brothers & Co. Bush, Simmons & Co Sweet, Dempster & Co. 



MILLINERY 
Edson. Keith & Co. D, B Fisk & Co 




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FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS 

Alexander H, Revell of \ H Revell & Co. 

Frank B Tobev of the Tobey Furniture Company. 

A H Andrews of A II Andrews & Co. J S Ford, Johnson & Co 



GOLD AND SILVERWARE. JEWELRY AND PRECIOUS STONES 



Spaulding i Co , by Lloyd Miller. Treas. Hyman. Ber.g A Co. 

C K Giles of Giles Bros A Co 



CHINA AND POTTERY 
Burley & Tyrell Pitkin & Brooks 

PAINTS. OILS. VARNISHES, ETC 

F. W. Devoe & C. T. Raynolds Co. Heath & Milligan Manufacturing Company. 

D R. Armstrong & Co. 

DECORATORS. 

The Almini Coinpan\ , ];)y Col R H. Stewart J G McCarthy 

Chicago Decorating Company. Geo Mart, Treas, 

MACHINERY 

William |, Chalmers of Eraser & Chalmers 

McCormick Har\'esting Machine Company, 

Heine Safety Boiler Company. Iiy |as H Harris 

CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS 
Jas J Andrews of C. P Kiiriball Company 

HARDWARE 
Hibbard. Spencer, Barllett & Co. Orr ^V Lockett Hardware C'lmpany 

BOOKS. STATIoN1';RY, PRINTING 

A. C. McClurg & Co. Andrew McNally of Rand, McNally tV Co 

Wdliam H Raud of Rand, McNally & Co, T C, Haynes of Rand, McNally ,V Co 
Western Publishing House, by H L. Turner, President 



PAPER MANUF.VCTURERS AND DEALERS 
Gef)rge H. Taylor ^S; Co J, W Butler Paper Company. 







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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 

\V W. Kimball Company. Lyon & Healy. 

Lyon, Potter & Co (C. A Potter. I 



GUNS, TACKLE. WHEELS AND EVERY CHARACTER OF SPORTING GOODS. 

A. G Spalding & Bros. 
Gormully ^: [eflery Manufacturing Company, R, Pliilip Gorniully, President. 



ARCHITECTS 



Henrv Ives Cobb. 



W. W, Bovington & Co. 



FIREWORKS 
Consolidated Fireworks Company of America, 



Louis .A Seeberger 
B. F. Jacobs. 
Byron A. Baldwin & C 
R. L, Martin 
Jay Dwiggins. 
W. M. Baker. 
Edwin F. Getchell. 
josiah L. Lombard. 
John A. Doherty 
Eugene H Fishburn. 
Cieo. L Warner 
Winston & Co. 



John S Cooper- 
Samuel B. Foster. 



REAL ESTATE. 

Liunlap Smith, Prest Real Estate Bo; 
W T Block of Grant Land Associat 

James H. Van Vlissingen. 

W. W.Baird of Baird & Warner, 
)- Isaac F. Rubel. 

Knott, Lewis & Co. 

W D, Kerfoot Company. 

Cuthbert W. Laing. 



R 


E Ismond. 


E 


C. Crane 


R 


W Hyman. 


C 


L. Hammond. 


S. 


Wilmer Farwell. 


s. 


E. Gross. 




LAWYERS. 


F 


H. Wintson. 


Jno J Knickerbocker 



ard. 
ion. 

Malcom McNeill. 

H. S. Dietrich 

Eugene A Bornique. 

Edward S. Hyman. 

William A. Bond. 

B. R. De Young. 

Frederick S. Oliver. 

Walter H Wilson. 

V. H. Surghnor. 

P. L. Garrity 

W H Cairndufi 



Henrv W. Leman. 



MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL 

Rt. Rev. Samufl Fallows. LL. D , Bishop Reformed Episcopal Church. 
Rev. H. W. Bolton. D. D., Pastor Centenary M. E, Church. 
Rev. Hiram W. Thomas, D D., Pastor People's Church. 
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, D D,, Pastor All Souls Church 



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R. A. Waller. 



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HOTELS 
Paliiu-r House. Col. H. T Brien. Mgr 

IXSUR.WCE 

M L. C. Funkhouser. 
Thos. S. Quincey. 




W- A. Ale.sander 



DAIRY. 
Central Creamery Compan\. 

TRANSPORTATION COMPANY 
(ien Joseph Stockton. 

LUMBER. 

Francis Beidler of Francis Beidler & Co. 

GAS AND ELECTRIC FIXTURES. 
C. A. Vosbur.gh, Mgr., W. C. Vosburgh Manufacturing Company. 

PLATE GLASS. 
Geo. F. KiiTiball of Geo F. Kimball & Co. 

CONTRACTOR 
Geo, C. Prussing 

SURVEYORS. 
Samuel S Greeley of Greeley-Carlson Compan\ 

RAWHIDES, 
The Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Company, Wm. H. Preble. S.'cretary. 



NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING. 
Lord & Thomas. D M. Lord 




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Chicago. June 15, 1895 
GVk. John C. Under tvood, Painter House, Clnca!;o: 

Dear Sir — In reply to the questions you submit to me as to the feasibility of getting 
representative bodies here in Chicago to attend the Cotton States' exposition that is to 
be held at Atlanta, Ga , to visit said exposition during the month of October. I wish to 
state that I am heartily in favor of such a movement, and would be very glad indeed to 
see the directors and ex-directors of our World's Columbian exposition, also the repre- 
sentatives of our great commercial interests, and also to have accompany such represen- 
tative bodies some of our military. I think would be a most excellent thing, and I 
certainly would lend all the aid I could in my humble way in furthering such an 
enterprise 

I wish to state right here that I had a little experience with the Southern Con- 
federacy from iS6j to 1865 and, I to-day. have a bullet in my possession that passed 
through my left shoulder I want to state, general, that 1 bear no malice 1 consider 
the war ended and all malice and ex'erything pertaining thereto should be buried, and I 
am most happy to join and do everything I can in any movement that will forever obliter- 
ate any feeling, except that of brotherly love and the greatest possible harmony between 
the north and the south, and I willingly will take pleasure in doing anything I can to 
help you further the movement in the interest of the Cotton States' exposition. I am. 

Yours very truly. 
(Signed) WASHINGTON PORTER. 



H. L Turner & Co.. Bankers, Etc. / 
Chicago. Illinois, ) 

[Extract from letter of June 15. 1S95 ] 

Geij. Johu C. Uuder-vood, Palmer House, Chicn,i^o. 

De.sr Sir — Your letter of June nth, addressed to Mr. Peck and myself. dul>' 
received. 

From the multitude of cordial expressions which have come to me personally from 
different parts of the south. I am convinced that your statement that the south is just at 
this time especially friendly to this city, is wholly true. I believe that your suggestion 
for a convention at Atlanta between the business men of Chicago and of the south, could 
be made of great and direct financial interest to this city. I am further convinced that the 
especially warm feeling of the entire south toward the First regiment, for its outspoken 
and unhesitating co-operation in the recent dedication of the Confederate monument in 
this city, is so ardent that its services as escort would insure an overwhelming reception 
to the party. * * * * * * 

[Letter of July 2. 1895,] 

Giir 'Jolii! C i'iid,-r'i<ood, Palmer House, Cliicai^o: 

Dear Sir — In reply to your inquiry as to the possibility of taking the First regiment 
to Atlanta in the latter part of October or the ist of November next, I have to say that 
provided a suthcient interest is manifested by the business men of the city to secure the 
consent of employers to allow the men to go, and provided the regiment is put to no 
expense, I will take the regiment, numbering probably about seven hundred officers and 
men, with bugle and drum corps of about forty pieces, with full equipment, both fatigu- 
and full dress uniform and will give such parades, reviews, and exhibition drills as you 
may deem desirable. Y'ours very truly. 

(Signed) HENRY L. TURNER, 

Colonel Ursl liifanlry. I. N. G. 




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PERSONAL TO THE AUTHOR. 

PKISONI'.K 

[From the KiltJS in the Kecord and Pension tlflue, War Department. Washint^ton. 1). C | 

United States Pension Agency. / 
Louisville, Kv.. March 17, 1894, \' 

To iVIiom It May Coiuii 11 

This is to certify thai my cummand. the Seven tfcntli Kentucky (Federal) cavalry, 
was stationed in southern Kentucky during the fall and summer of 1864. and spring of 
1865. with headquarters at Bowling Green. I. therefore, became actjuainted with 
ex-Lieut. -Go\- John C. Underwood, then a voting man. and a prisoner on parole. Mr. 
Underwood, though a son of Judge Joseph R. Underwood, an influential Union man, 
espoused the cause of the south, and was reported to have gone to Richmond. Va.. in 
the summer of 1862. Upon the retreat of Bragg's army froin Tullahoma. Tenn,. the 
spring of 1863. young Underwood was captured, sick, with typhoid fever, and brought in 
a feeble condition to Bowling Green. Ky . during the early suinnier of th.it \ear; and. 
while convalescing, reported to Col, Maxwell, at the time commandant of that post. 
John C. Underwood was the only Confederate of his family, and notwithstanding the 
strong Federal influence possessed by his father and his family ties, he refused to take 
the oath of allegiance to the United States and succeeded in obtaining an order to be 
put through the Federal lines into the so-called Confederate States. 

He claimed to be a citizen of Virginia, but the army people suspected him of hold- 
ing a commission in the Confederate army. Pursuant with the order for him to be put 
through the Confederate lines south, he was sent to Nashville. Tenn , and for some rea- 
son Gen. Granger would not pass him through liis lines, and. ronse(]iieTitly returneil him 
to Bowling Green, and he was sent to Louisville. K\' , and ]^laced in prison, afterward 
taken to the military prison in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remaineil for some months 
and washnally sent to Fort Warren. Boston harbor, the latter part of October, i8()3, and 
confined there until released on parole some time during the last of the summer of 1864. 

I have always understood by the influence of his father's friends. Hon. Thomas C. 
Corwin of Ohio, ami Senator Chas, Sttmner of Massachusetts, he secured his release, 
President I^incoln directing the secretary of war to specially parole him Anyway, his 
parole required him "not to enter an insurgent state during the war \\ithoiit permission 
from the secretary of war" 

He was reported to have gone direct from Fort Warren to Washington to try to 
eftect his way south, and it was also stated that the Confederate commissioner of 
exchange had proffered to make a special exchange for him. Init failing in such purpose 
he came to Bowling Cireen about August or September. 18114. when I commanded 
the post. He was then, and ever, a pronounced Confederate and was very restless 
under restraint; and some time during the fall of 1864. he again went to Washington, 
hoping to obtain the desired exchange, but failing, returned and said that his friends 
who helped him out of prison would not assist toward affecting his exchange that he 
might go south 

He refused and spurned every proposition to take the oatli, though it wr>uld have 
been greatly to his personal advantagi- to ha\e done so. and hi' was so ultra in his 



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scHithein expressions thai ihirinn an interview after the assassination of I'resident 
Lincoln angry words passed between ns He again went to Washington. I think in 
li-ljruary. 1865. to attempt his exchange, bnt did not sncceed, and retnrning. was even 
more pronounced in his southern sentiments, and was true to his cause to the end 

(Signed) T. W. CAMPBELL, 
Lnte Lieit/enatit-CoioUc'/ Sezwntt'enth Kentuckv Ca7'a/yy, 
and cominandant post at Bo7i'lin^ Green, K\\ 

Ofvlcial Coi'Y: "I 

By autlinrityof ttie Secretary of War. | 

(Siunedl F. C. AINSWORTH. \ 

Col., U. S. A.. Chief of Office. J 



MILITARY POSITIONS 



M.ARCus J. Wright, 
Agent for tlie Collection of Confederate Records. 



War Records Office. 
War Department, 



Washington, D. C, February 25, 1895. 1 
Co! yolin C. Underuh'od, Cozdngton, Kv.. 

My Dear Colonel — I have to inform you that the records of the Confederate army 
show that you commenced your service in the Confederate army as a staff officer of Gen. 
S. 15. Buckner, and subsequently you were appointed a *lieutenant of engineers in the 
Confederate States army, and afterward an appointment was made l)y the secretary of 
war of the Confederate States, making Ceorge B. Hodge a colonel, and you a flieuten- 
ant-colonel, to raise troops for the Confederate army. This was in May, 1863. You 
were afterward captured by the Federal army while very sick, and that your application 
for exchange was refused by Secretary Stanton; that you were imprisoned in Louisville. 
Ky.. and in Cincinnati, and finally taken to Fort Warren. Boston harbor, where you 
remained a prisoner nearly a year, and were specially paroled in Jidy. 1804. and on lea\'- 
ing Fort Warren \ou went to Washington, endeavoring to effect \our exchange, which 
was refused. Very respectfnlU' )oiirs. 

(Signed) MARCUS J. WRICMT. 

A^^ent of till- War Drpartment . 



ENDORSEMENTS. 

Considering the liij;!! military source of the statoiiu-nt, it is pardon- 
able to make public tht- following: 

Gen. Longstreet, on taking the southern train at Cincinnati, the 
evening of June 2, 1895, while parting with the author, was so consid- 
erate antl kinel as to say, in substance: -'I regret you were captured 
early and had not an important command during the war, for had such 
been the case I believe you could and would have rendered valuable 



*On reconiniendatioiis from Maj -Gen. S. B Buckner. C. S. .\.. fioii. T. H. Watts of .Ala., attorney 
general C. S., Col. Ci. W, C, Lee of President Davis' staff, and others. 

■' when a young man Lieut. -Gov. Underwood, then a lieutenant of engineers in the Confederate 
army, served in my command. He proved efficient in the discharge of his duties." » * * * 

March 6. iSgs. (Signed) ■' S. B. BUCKNER." 

+By direction of President Davis, through instructions conveyed to Mr, Seddon. secretary of war 
C. S , by Col. Wm. Preston Johnston of the president's staff. 




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service to the Confederacy; " anil, sulisequently, in answer to a letter 
of thanks for liis favorable opinion, he replied with this comnuinication: 

C(it y. C. Underwood, CoviiigloH, k'y.: 

Mv Dear Sir— The system and order wiili which you managed the large number of 
visitors and spectators during the ceremonies of unveiling the monument to the Confed- 
erate dead at Chicago on the 3nth of May last suggested to my mind the great advantage 
of such order and system, could ue ha\o hail it in the Confederate army during the 
year or two of its last service in the lield 

I am pleased to so state in thanking you for your untiring attentions during oiLr 
travels going to and returning from Chicago. Very truly yours, 

(Signed) JAMES LONGSTREET, 

Veteran Corps, j 

First Regiment Infantrv I N G - 

Chicago, February 13, uSgij ) 

6V«. John C. iliidoru'ood, M,ijor-(;,)nial Coiiini,iii,liiv^ Unil.d Confcdrr.ilr ]',l,i ,111s, 
Koom 4. j6o C/,nk slr,;i, Cilr: 

Dear General — .\t the annu.d meeting of the Veteran corps of the First regi- 
ment infantry I. N G . held at the armory on Monday evening, February 10, iS')ii. 
after the historian read his report, on inotion of Comrade Lawrence M I'!nnis the 
following resolution was unanimously adopted 

■Bo it RosoIto,! by the members of the Veteran corps of the First regiment 
infantry I. N. G., at its annual meeting, that the thanks of this corps are due and are 
hereby tendered to Gen. John C. Underwood for his energetic and enthusiastic efforts 
which resulted in the dedication of the monument to the Confederate dead at Oakwoods 
cemetery, Chicago, last Memorial Day, and the subsequent visit of the First regiment 
infantry I N G to .\tl,intri and llie cities of the south 

1 am yours very truly. 

(Signed) FKED. N SAKCiliNT. 

Soirrlarw 



THE BEGINNING OE THE END. 

As the result of Chicago's hospitable demonstration toward the 
renowned ex-Confederate officers and other distinguished southern 
visitors on the occasion of the dedication of the Confederate ninnnnient 
in Oakwoods cemetery. May 30, 1895, the First regiment infantry, 
I. N, G., made a tour through several southern states, and such was its 
enthusiastic reception b\ the people as it •■marched through Georgia," 
that the seed for burying the liatchot of thr sixties has been thoroughly 
sown. On the streets of Augusta, company i\f, Capt. Edw. W. Switzer, 
commanding, fired volleys over the imaginar\' grave of the unpleasant 
past. As the smoke from its rifles arose and became lost in tlie lialmy 
atmospliere of the southern clime, so should the misunderstandings. 







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hatreds and strifes of the belligerent era be made to \ anish and recollec- 
tions be cherished imlj', of the honorable, valiant and noble deeds <:)f the 
contending elements of the conntry. Let the sod be turned with 
bayonets, all wrongs burieti 'neath their arch of steel; let dissensions 
disperse and disappear as smoke, and ever recollect and herald the 
chivalrous attainments and soldicrK prowess of the opposing forces of 
tlu- two sections, now at peace, reunited and welded with bonds of interest 
anil love. The sun rising clear, in a cloudless sky, by its golden light 
illuminates the bright future of the Nation. 





